A long overdue update
I've haven't been online much during these past few weeks and there are many reasons for it. I've had alot of things to do.. ..Helping out my folks, various book projects, my life in general and It been so damned hot that sitting in front of a pc hasn't been really ideal. Beign the hottest place in the whole house!
Anyways, i've been buying alot of books lately. My library has gotten around 20 new books with 4 "in the mail" and most of the about awards. So knowledge has been my primary objective. But that doesn't mean that I've stopped collecting, no sir! There were a few auctions that I had bid on in Germany, but the prices went too high as usuall. I have gotten something new though..
Paper items have been somewhat unfamiliar to me so far, because of the space most of them require and if parts of large groupings, their price. Basically I haven't focused on them nearly at all (excluding the Baden grouping and the OZL statute). That was changed by an offer that a friend of mine made that I couldn't refuse. The document I'm about to present, isnt amoung the rarest and the award that it was given with doesn't hold a great amount of prestige. But what really makes me love it, is the person who signed it. That is, Germany's first Emperor and king of Prussia, Wilhelm I. One of the great figures of European history who stood behind Moltke and Bismarck as they unified Germany politically and militarily. Parts of the famous painting of him standing the hall of mirrors in Versailles is even our old high school history book! 
The man who recieved the 3rd cl. Royal Crown Order and this doc is another story. Thanks to Glenn I know a little something of our guy. Major Friedrich von der Heyde commanded the 2nd bataillon of 2. Brandenburgisches Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 12 (Prinz Carl von Preussen) during the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, during witch he most likely recieved the 4th cl. RAO with swords and he allready held the officers long service award. He retired during the same year and was recalled after a little while to serve as a bezirkscommandeur of 2. bataillon (Rendsburg) of Holsteinisches Landwehr-Regiment Nr. 85. (charged with recruting and training in a small district and with other reserve and landwehr matters). As he didn't show up in later rangliste, he propably retired the last time in 1873 and was given the 3rd cl. KO as a retirement award.
That's basically it. Thank you for watching and commenting!
If you want to see more pics of my collection I'll post the shortly in collections display forum.
Anyways, i've been buying alot of books lately. My library has gotten around 20 new books with 4 "in the mail" and most of the about awards. So knowledge has been my primary objective. But that doesn't mean that I've stopped collecting, no sir! There were a few auctions that I had bid on in Germany, but the prices went too high as usuall. I have gotten something new though..
Paper items have been somewhat unfamiliar to me so far, because of the space most of them require and if parts of large groupings, their price. Basically I haven't focused on them nearly at all (excluding the Baden grouping and the OZL statute). That was changed by an offer that a friend of mine made that I couldn't refuse. The document I'm about to present, isnt amoung the rarest and the award that it was given with doesn't hold a great amount of prestige. But what really makes me love it, is the person who signed it. That is, Germany's first Emperor and king of Prussia, Wilhelm I. One of the great figures of European history who stood behind Moltke and Bismarck as they unified Germany politically and militarily. Parts of the famous painting of him standing the hall of mirrors in Versailles is even our old high school history book!
The man who recieved the 3rd cl. Royal Crown Order and this doc is another story. Thanks to Glenn I know a little something of our guy. Major Friedrich von der Heyde commanded the 2nd bataillon of 2. Brandenburgisches Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 12 (Prinz Carl von Preussen) during the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, during witch he most likely recieved the 4th cl. RAO with swords and he allready held the officers long service award. He retired during the same year and was recalled after a little while to serve as a bezirkscommandeur of 2. bataillon (Rendsburg) of Holsteinisches Landwehr-Regiment Nr. 85. (charged with recruting and training in a small district and with other reserve and landwehr matters). As he didn't show up in later rangliste, he propably retired the last time in 1873 and was given the 3rd cl. KO as a retirement award.
That's basically it. Thank you for watching and commenting!
If you want to see more pics of my collection I'll post the shortly in collections display forum.
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