Mützenbänder of Imperial Times
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John Josef
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Your certainly making one helluva case to start a collection. I'm gonna be honest the next time I see them at a show I'm going to take a much longer look.
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JustinG
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There is one thing that is important when dealing with imperial tallies. So for example, there was two ships called the S.M.S. Emden during WW1. The more well known one that was part of the East Asia Squadron and the one that came in 1916 which later was scuttled in Scapa Flow in 1919. So most sellers are going to try to attribute their tally to the "Heldenschiff" Hero's ship and not to the lesser known ship with the same name. Keep that in mind. Unless, you happen to have some good provenance like I am sharing with you in this thread.
Now, those ships like the Emden and the Wolf, Seeadler, Möwe, etc.. They are always going to favor a high price. For other seasoned and those with huge collections of Mützenbänder, they try to go for more of the obscure units, ones that weren't in service for a long time and had a very small cadre of personnel assigned to it. Airship tallies are also quite expensive although, from the Pickelhaube markets are, it really isn't that unreasonable. Bottom line, These units are all over 100 years old. When they transitioned to the Reichsmarine afterwords, they were reclassified so ships like the S.M.S Schleswig-Holstein were titled for the Mützenband as Linienschiff Schleswig-Holstein. Of course, by this time they also did away with the silver, red and gold script and went with the golden thread color all around.
Best Regards,
JustinG
Now, those ships like the Emden and the Wolf, Seeadler, Möwe, etc.. They are always going to favor a high price. For other seasoned and those with huge collections of Mützenbänder, they try to go for more of the obscure units, ones that weren't in service for a long time and had a very small cadre of personnel assigned to it. Airship tallies are also quite expensive although, from the Pickelhaube markets are, it really isn't that unreasonable. Bottom line, These units are all over 100 years old. When they transitioned to the Reichsmarine afterwords, they were reclassified so ships like the S.M.S Schleswig-Holstein were titled for the Mützenband as Linienschiff Schleswig-Holstein. Of course, by this time they also did away with the silver, red and gold script and went with the golden thread color all around.
Best Regards,
JustinG
Steve Nick
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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.
Thanks for taking the time to post this.