Here is the best that I could do
Sorry, I wish they were better for you
The originals are very clear and signed by the Prince
They are the same officer
He is wearing the long tonged epaulettes under the Super Vest that were also worn under the kurasse
More about the photos later.
Steve
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Here is the story on these 2 photos and many other great ones . There was an American who lived in Germany
and had a shop selling militaria . Named Dean Krasomil. He called me collect from Germany . He told me there
was to be an estate sale of a family who were the children of a German GFM. I told him to buy what he could.
Krasomil seemed to think that he might be the only dealer there. He was dead wrong. When he arrived, there
were others there including one of the Zyla brothers from Mohawk Arms in N Y and Karl Heintz Muller.
It was the daughter's estate of GFM von Bock un-Polack. Offered were his cased GFM batons .Dress and service.
His sword , cased presented to him when he left his Command of the Prussian Garde Korp. Mohawk bought the sword
and I later purchased it form them . Later it went in trade to Stephen Wolfe . Muller bought the 2 batons .
Krasomil ended up with the photos .Along with the G d C pair were other photos . The GFM's son, Haus
was an officer in the Prussian 1 Garde Regt zu Fuss. His daughter as married to Kurt von Gilhousen, who
was a Flugel Adjutant to Carl Edward .There were 2 great photos of Carl Edward in the group .One of him in
full dress as an officer in the 1 G R zu Fuss wearing his parade miter and signed by him. The other was
Carl Edward and his wife on their wedding day signed by both and he was wearing his General's Attila
for H R 9. I ended up with these 2 photos. Krasomil offered all the photos for $2,000 U S Dollars
Back then a lot of money for photos, however there were also photos of the GFM signed by Kaiser Wilhelm II
to his two GFM's . A play on words by the Kaiser on von Bock un-Polack's double name .
I didn't buy the photos. I told a collector friend about them and he bought them all
I was allowed to have the copies of the G d C made from the originals and sent one to George Gaadt
and he did the art work. George made one for himself. After George passed away, I don't know
what happened to all of his reference material. For years he collected G d C photos .
Steve
