Recent content by Steve Nick

Works in Eastern Ontario too.

Thanks for posting that. It answers the question as to why the No date badges existed. Very helpful.

I did have a look at the results yesterday. I'm pretty much just an observer these days. A 25% hammer fee plus exchange rates with the Cdn dollar spiralling into the ground has me on the sidelines most of the time. Although there were a couple of surprising No Bids that I might be able to...

That's what's odd. The asking price is high even if they were dated.

That's a great looking item. They don't come much better.

Here are a couple of them. They look very good to me. I'm not sure about naming vendors, but go on German Ebay and search on Schiessabzeichen and they'll come up.

Thank you Sandy for being so willing to share the results of your research with others.

A not surprising answer and one that I think makes sense. In service an award winner was only allowed to wear the award on his uniform for one year. So, for instance a Reservist who won the award in 1908 would not be allowed to wear it in any other year. Allowing some one to wear an award...

That's a possibility. Perhaps for wear with a Veterans Association uniform?

Yes I gave it a pass. If there is no date on the piece there's little point in acquiring it.

I've seen several Jager Kaiser Prizes without dates. Just last week there was one on offer in a US auction. Looked like a completely legit piece but without a date. I don't understand why they exist.

Not a difficult decision for me. The Bavarian in a heartbeat.

I have my collection, all my data on Kaiser prizes and the Imperial Army by unit along with head dress configuration by unit in MS Access databases. Works great for filtering and running queries. It can deal with photos but can become quite a memory hog.

This has been a very informative post on what I consider a very interesting area of Imperial collecting. Thanks for taking the time to post this.

You did a superb job on restoring the visor, particularly in restoring the lacquer. How did you manage to replicate the surface texture so that it matched the original finish? Usually, applying the lacquer results in a very shiny surface.