Hi Steve,
a nice answer, but nothing about facts.
"That is pretty common knowledge for even the mildly informed on this order and many Imperial orders for that matter."
That is absolut correct, Imperial orders!
I know the 50-year crown for the PlM 1844-1918.
But I could not realize, that you transform this eminently respactable and very seldom Imperial award into the year 1967/1968.
And I know 50-year crowns for rabbit seeder orginizations or carnival associations, and that they "award" a 50 year crown to members, possessing 50 years the member needle of that organization.
But there is nothing to combine.
It is comparing an pretty original with a reproduction, a copy.
Please see here:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=110396
USAF86:
"It would appear that surviving WWI PlM recipients privately purchased the crowns to affix to their badges as their 50th anniversaries began in the 1960s. I don’t believe these crowns were “awarded” by the German government as the military class of the PlM was then extinct."
And see here:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=99755
Post 10, Les:
"..there is a picture of the PLM with crown. It's an entirely new post WWII medal."
That is correct
"...that it was still a real "award" made long after WWI."
And that is not correct.
Everybody here can form his own opinion about that.
But we cannot talk about an "awarded" original.
We can only talk about fakes (OK, that is not a fake) or about reproductions.
And a reproduction is a copy.
Regards
Uwe
a nice answer, but nothing about facts.
"That is pretty common knowledge for even the mildly informed on this order and many Imperial orders for that matter."
That is absolut correct, Imperial orders!
I know the 50-year crown for the PlM 1844-1918.
But I could not realize, that you transform this eminently respactable and very seldom Imperial award into the year 1967/1968.
And I know 50-year crowns for rabbit seeder orginizations or carnival associations, and that they "award" a 50 year crown to members, possessing 50 years the member needle of that organization.
But there is nothing to combine.
It is comparing an pretty original with a reproduction, a copy.
Please see here:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=110396
USAF86:
"It would appear that surviving WWI PlM recipients privately purchased the crowns to affix to their badges as their 50th anniversaries began in the 1960s. I don’t believe these crowns were “awarded” by the German government as the military class of the PlM was then extinct."
And see here:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=99755
Post 10, Les:
"..there is a picture of the PLM with crown. It's an entirely new post WWII medal."
That is correct
"...that it was still a real "award" made long after WWI."
And that is not correct.
Everybody here can form his own opinion about that.
But we cannot talk about an "awarded" original.
We can only talk about fakes (OK, that is not a fake) or about reproductions.
And a reproduction is a copy.
Regards
Uwe
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