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    Hello all,

    Heres' a nice looking tunic for a sapper Lt in Hechtgraue. Please give your opinions.

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    Is this a beamte type tunic? I'm looking at the star and it has a rosette superimposed on it. I thought beamte had a rosette only...

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    Yes, the drawing is a medical. It shows rosettes for rank. I don't know what the rosettes are really supposed to look like.

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    Beamte rank rosette from Gordon. Whats the difference between this style rosette and the one on the pike gray tunic?

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    Beamte rank rosette from Gordon. Whats the difference between this style rosette and the one on the pike gray tunic?

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    Ok, really confusing pieces - but more "star-like" than rosette IMHO

    And these stars were handmade, available from various craftsman and various quality. For example a contemporary uniform-catalogue were two type officer star: with or without sequins.

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    Markgraf, thank you for your help. So far you have been only person to comment. On another forum I'm told these are rosettes and a few people I know and have emailed also think rosette so it's very confusing. I have been researching and have only found one clear photo of this star/rose.

    I see period wartime photos that look like the stars are thick but I can't get detail to prove they look like this.

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    Check out these.

    a chart with ranks and it shows rosettes and stars. The man in the photo appears to be an officer or beamte of the eissenbahn troops

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    STERNROSETTE is what I've learned. So, its a Beamte. I guess either most are on vacation or very few people have interest/knowledge of Austro-Hungarian militaria.

    So, it may be a veterinary official or a Militarbauingenieure.

    I see a lot of Imperial German, 3rd Reich, and other countries veterinary tunics. Even Finnish veterinary tunics are common so I guess an Austrian should be more common to find than a bauingenieure. There were thousands of animals in military service during WW1 and 2.

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    I asked my colleague in the Hungarian Military Museum. According his opinion this is a rosette.

    My mistake :) But surely not a veterinarian, because they have madder red collar.

    The previous picture: the collar badge isn't winged wheel but a flaming grenade. I think he is an Austrian gendarme from the interwar period.

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    Ok I am confused (Oh Rick and Glenn-where art thou?). Do the Sternrose indicate officer status, are an embellishment or indicate Beamter status?

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