here are some interesting ww1 postcard photos

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spike helmets with covers and unit numbers #L10
dated 1914-15

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closeup of PC #4

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1915 dated postcard,
30th reserve div marked postcard

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spike helmets with covers, unit #115

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closeup #7

closeup shot

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more spike helmets w/covers in a town
dated on back 4-8-1915

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closeup #9

closeup of pc #9

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man wearing 2 place medal bar and campaign bar underneath it?

dated 1915
unit 4th komp jager regt #8

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roth gottlieb wearing unknown ribbon on tunic?

no date or unit specified

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post ww1 man wearing 3 place ribbon bar with ic 2nd and 1st class add pin plus 2 other ribbons in front of the ic,

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new postcards today

here are a few new postcards that came in today.
medic with lugar holster and steel helmet.

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man with a cutout wound badge being worn 1918?

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man with a very very small pistol holster.

this guy must have tiny hands, wow!!!

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man with rolled up shoulder straps, getting ready to go to the front.

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#143 is an old China hand-that's the China campaign medal I reckon by the ribbon. The "bar" below it is a long service schnalle-replaced by the medal in 1913. Many older guys still wore them until they got them replaced.

#145 is a Saxon Unterofficer (Corporal)-two FA medals (silver and bronze).
Saxons tended to wear the EK on the ribbon.
As DD pointed out earlier, the EK device was sold by medal companies + in catalogs post war, but for every non Saxon out there in photos wearing the device, there are @ 20+ Saxons.