Let's see your best

[Rich G]

I hate these threads...they ask you to post your best item not items and some folk just can seem to understand it is singular.

Sheesh! Every year it is the same.

The clue is in the first post:

Show us your BEST new piece of 2013.

[pzrwest]

Beside my new tattoo (haha, you all know where the oaks come from ), the best piece(s) I got this year are.. these two simple cards.

The first is showing a leutnant right at the beginninig of the war, dated on august 1914. The second is a patriotic postcard, showing a 1914 AWS.. Special thing on this one- it ran on my birthday, just 74 years/about 3 generations before I was born.

Both cards add their own kind of dark, serious but also captivating spirit to my cabinett. Sure, I got the one or other cross or order as well, but I love these two simple paper cards the most.

The Lt. on the right hand picture sure looks a lot like Himmler, but I don't think he ever rose to the rank Lt. There was a program on the TV last night on the Military Channel called Nazi Hunters and was all about Himmler how he rose from a WW1 veteran to head of the SS etc. It also went into how he was captured and his trying to make deals with the Allies

[Rincewind]

my best

[avensis2000]

My best one this year is golden Austrian Leopold order with war decoration, which was shown in separate thread. Early Zähringer Löwen commander and knight's cross are the runner-ups, also shown in older threads.

I hope there's something to top those next year, but it might be difficult since I have burned my wallet (probably for longer than normal period) buying several other good (mostly Austrian) items too this year...

I wish you all good luck and success in our hobby of collecting and preserving pieces of history. I hope everyone has/will have the "best item of year" this and next year too, let it be "Hindie" or PLM, main thing it's something you value your self.

Recently I have noticed I have also used quite a lot of money to books related to history and Orders&Decorations - it's surprisingly fascinating too (if you read them)

I wish happy and prosperous New Year 2014->+ to everyone on WAF.

[cola59]

My favourite pieces from 2013

Happy new year everyone. My favourite pieces from 2013 :

[Alan Wilson]

Flammenwerfer-Pionier

A very rare pair...the Soldbuch and Militarpass of a Flammenwerfer-Pionier, Hermann Briest assigned to Jager (Sturm) Bataillon 3. Thanks to member naxos they are together after "how many years"? He found them a year apart from two different German sources. As I had obtained the Militarpass from naxos awhile ago he kindly offered me the Soldbuch. Very much appreciated.

Both are full of personal, training and operational information. Briest and his flamethrower participated in the Sturmbataillon assault on British held Hill 110.

More information http://www.kaiserscross.com/40029/437301.html

[gregM]

Back together as they should be.

[Brian L.]

A very rare pair...the Soldbuch and Militarpass of a Flammenwerfer-Pionier, Hermann Briest assigned to Jager (Sturm) Bataillon 3. Thanks to member naxos they are together after "how many years"? He found them a year apart from two different German sources. As I had obtained the Militarpass from naxos awhile ago he kindly offered me the Soldbuch. Very much appreciated.

Both are full of personal, training and operational information. Briest and his flamethrower participated in the Sturmbataillon assault on British held Hill 110.

More information http://www.kaiserscross.com/40029/437301.html

It's great that these have been put back together. Unfortunately, items to the same person are often split up by dealers. One of my personal beefs about sellers on German eBay is that many of them break up documents and medals to the same person and sell them separately in order to force higher bids which often results in groups being broken up and sold to several buyers.

[Eryk]

my best is two crosses:


1. Unmarked DEUMER

[Eryk]

And the second cross

marked L/11

I wish you all Happy New Year

Best Regards
Eryk

[Robert P.]

Very nice Deumers! Are they in the Schinkel frames? Do you know?

Robert

[Eryk]

yes - the frame is schinkiel

best regards
Eryk

[streptile]

Very nice Deumers! Are they in the Schinkel frames? Do you know? Robert

As far as I know Deumer used the same frame in all their pre-1940 EKs (the "Schinkel frame" aka the Imperial frame) and only then switched to their LDO frame. For a time they made their 1939 EKs with the LDO frame and their 1914 EKs with their old Imperial frame, but towards the end of the war they began making all EKs with the LDO frame.

[Robert P.]

Thank you Trevor.

Robert

[saschaw]

top jeweller work Gg Lindner München

double G ,,yes

You probably want to know what that "Gg" stands for, right? I'm sure it's for his first name, Georg - back then, these abbreviations were quite usual.

I hate these threads...they ask you to post your best item not items and some folk just can seem to understand it is singular.

Not too difficult for me; must be this late 18th century Baden civil merit medal I got half a year ago... I'm still glad every day about it!