The RKT grouping...............

[Steve 5]

Gentlemen, just received this exquisite set of miniatures via Andrew, from an RKT, sadly name unknown.....Andrew started a thread most of you have seen, but I have taken more images to show off these beauties.....the set comprises of his miniature medal bar, miniature medal/award stick pin, a miniature RK stick pin both in award and ribbon bar style and his OdR membership stick pins, one clearly older than the other...perhaps he updated for bling's sake !
The miniature medal bar and the awards stick pin have the small "o" marking associated with St u L......I would imagine the set/grouping, excluding the OdR pins(which are not mm) are probably St u L made pieces.....I have not seen the miniature RK stick pin both in award and ribbon bar style before.....comments welcome.
Prost ! Steve

p.s. a big thanks to Andrew for letting me have these

[Steve 5]

details of the medal bar....................

[Steve 5]

The award stick pin...................

[Steve 5]

The RK stick pin/lapel badge, absolutely stunning, never seen this type before.....

[Steve 5]

The single ribbon bar style lapel stick pin, again not seen this type before...........

[Steve 5]

and lastly the two OdR membership pins................
Prost ! Steve.

[Brig]

Exquisite and, I imagine, expensive. I love miniatures...this is killer. Have you tried bouncing the award combination off portraits/records of RK recipients?

Since he has no post-war awards, you might be able to assume that he saw little to no post-war service and got these for events and reunions, perhaps. Or was the post-war award system pretty scarce?

[Tom B]

Boy what a super wonderful set ! Tom

[novara]

Steve,

I am happy that the group finally landed at a serious collector who will never separate them. I am always angry when I see that somebody destroy a group for profit.

Anyway this is a really nice set for sure, I took 20-30 close ups for myself. I was even tempted to keep it.....

Andrew

[Steve 5]

Hi Andrew ! indeed a great, no, a fabulous set , I am glad you did not keep them !! please add some of your photographs, mine are a little out of focus, my photography skills are not my best asset !
Does the dealer you got them from have any idea who the recipient was ? any clues ?.......
Prost ! Steve.

[Tony T-S]

A great set gone to a good home (from another good home)

[xmember]

Good for you in grabbing it Steve. That is a nice grouping. The name will be a great plus.

Regards,
Rudy

[novara]

Unfortunately he does not, however he tried his best, he knew very well it would raise the value seriously, I suppose the new owner has to do this.... I will post more photos from another device later.

[Tom B]

The single ribbon bar style lapel stick pin, again not seen this type before...........

Never seen this one before either ?? Really nice rare one ! Tom

[Brig]

Well...I just went through nearly 2000 portraits in a thread over at AHF... every time I thought I found a possibility, he turned out to have a German Cross or a couple awards in different grades

I think ID is going to be a long, hard road