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    Silesian Eagles--PART TWO

    I'm posting this for Jeff McCulloh:



    This is the same style eagle as the one on my medal bar with the Life Saving Medal in "Silesian Eagles--PART ONE," only Jeff's is minty!
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    Can anyone explain the white Sileasian Eagles with a gold crown on the breast which show up from time to time? I have yet to see one in any reference book.
    OMSA #6582

    At my age, "getting lucky" is finding my car in the parking lot.

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      Here I am posting my brother's medal bar with a Silesian Eagle 2nd class. I like these bars when there are together with their "Interimspangen" or "ribbon bars", especially the "Austrian" or "Bavarian" type.

      He bought it in 1986 from the Auction House "Graf Klenau". Too bad that this dealer doesn't exist anymore (was taken over by Hermann Historica in 1988 if I remember correctly). They had a really nice shop in the center of Munich (Maximilianstr.) and almost always had a nice selection of Medal Bars, mostly WWI, in their auctions' catalogues.

      Enjoy...

      Ciao,

      Claudio



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        #4
        The white Silesian eagles are a polish award-or a cap badge-if you are lucky. Thre are also fantasy fakes out there that are white.
        A Dealer at the Salt Lake City Arms show 5 years ago, who should have known better, had the gall to tell me it was a "rare, official, NON-Combatant" type: a bargain at $100.00.
        These have been showing up for about 10 years or so, (since the wall fell).
        Histeria can tell us more.
        Cheers,
        JeMc

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          #5
          Another medal bar with a Silesian Eagle 2nd Class with a rare 40 years Army service award:





          Relax and enjoy it...

          Ciao,

          Claudio

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            Ah, what a beautiful bar, Claudio!

            The story this one tells me is that this man was a senior NCO (as service from ca 1897-99 would indicate) of Feldwebelleutnant rank equivalent in WW1. While I find a handful of Intendance officials with the Merit Cross with swords, virtually all Beamten got the Wilhelmskreuz with Swords instead.

            This man was almost certainly a combatant branch warrant officer, with no other Wtbg award possible. But he certainly remained in the Reichsheer and Wehrmacht for a length of service that can only mean that he became some sort of Beamter. Even after 40 years of service, he may have actually been no higher than the equivalent of an Oberleutnant!

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              Rick,

              Thank you for your nice words on my latest Spange.

              Here another medal bar with the Silesian Eagle 2nd class from the Kube's Auction Catalogue:

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                #8
                The bar above improperly shows an 18 Years Wehrmacht Service Cross worn without the its required 4 Years Service Medal "twin," as seen in the color scan of Claudio's bar.

                This sort of post-WW2 "upgrade" is often found. A single 4 Years Medal belongs there.

                [ 09 December 2001: Message edited by: Rick Lundstrom ]

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                  #9
                  These scans are posted for Christopher Ailsby. Thanks to Mark Schroeder for shrinking them to postable size!

                  Note the "rimmed crescent" variations, and the distinctive 1921+ "round crotch" enamelled eagle of a type made for attaching the 1921 crossed swords device.

                  Obverses--



                  reverses--



                  [ 09 December 2001: Message edited by: Rick Lundstrom ]

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