joerookery
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I have no clue here. Who is it and what does it say???? Thanks!
from the Kostel Collection.
from the Kostel Collection.
Calling AR!!!
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Liongules said:Joe,
I'm really terrible at reading that handwriting!
You may have already noticed this, but it looks to me (and I'm probably wrong!!) that the last two words right above the date are Sachsen Weimar.
Hi Mike, you are right.
Paulina(e) (?) Sachsen Weimar
Weimar, 5 Oktober 1905
Joe,
Brian here, turns that the same picture appears on page 133 of the "Uniformen der deutschen Infanterie 1888 bis 1914 in Farbe" book. He is identified as the Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, taken in 1889 as a captain of the 5th Thüringisches Infanterie Regiment #94.
The inscription is a bit hard to follow, but starts off something like:
Zur Erinnerung u. Andenken an Deinen treuen Freund u. Vetter ?????.
In memory and a souvenir on your loyal friend and cousin...
Hope this helps.
Brian
Brian here, turns that the same picture appears on page 133 of the "Uniformen der deutschen Infanterie 1888 bis 1914 in Farbe" book. He is identified as the Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, taken in 1889 as a captain of the 5th Thüringisches Infanterie Regiment #94.
The inscription is a bit hard to follow, but starts off something like:
Zur Erinnerung u. Andenken an Deinen treuen Freund u. Vetter ?????.
In memory and a souvenir on your loyal friend and cousin...
Hope this helps.
Brian
Joe,
Großherzog Wilhelm Ernst Carl Alexander Friedrich Heinrich Bernhard Alberg Georg Hermann von Sachsen. He is pictured still as a Leutnant in Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 94 of which he had been à la suite since the 23rd of March 1894. The Grand Duke was promoted to Oberleutnant on 1 September 1900 and then on his accession to the Granddukedom directly to Oberst on 8 January 1901. He died in the rank of a General der Infanterie on 24th of April 1923.
Regards
Glenn
Großherzog Wilhelm Ernst Carl Alexander Friedrich Heinrich Bernhard Alberg Georg Hermann von Sachsen. He is pictured still as a Leutnant in Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 94 of which he had been à la suite since the 23rd of March 1894. The Grand Duke was promoted to Oberleutnant on 1 September 1900 and then on his accession to the Granddukedom directly to Oberst on 8 January 1901. He died in the rank of a General der Infanterie on 24th of April 1923.
Regards
Glenn