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A nice St u Luck made later piece, post 68', although quality had started to drop at this stage, these Fallshirmjager qualification badges are still evocative !
Andreas you will have to get the...

Great little ribbon bars ! Hard to find and little seen, these types of bars still available today...I bought one for my own Good conduct/long service medal when I was in service.............
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I echo what gas already been said, congratulations on a nice find !
Does not look like it was ever worn to me.......having an original makers mark/label is always a bonus !
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A beauty Kris ! always wanted one, great shape, any markings anywhere ?
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Fellow Imperial collectors

You have all probably noticed I have had some time out from both here and the our hobby.....a turbulent year or so to be sure, things happening in my life good &...

Fellow BW collectors

You have all probably noticed I have had some time out from both here and the our hobby.....a turbulent year or so to be sure, things happening in my life good & bad....my...

Steve, a nice example of an M17, great to have most of its original liner present especially those "white" liner flaps, are the cushions present on the reverse ? Shell has what I would call a heavy...

Jonas, indeed a beautiful example of a Deumer 57er EKI....one of my favourite 1957 awards and by a premier maker as it shows in this early example, as Nick as stated Deumer indeed used dies and left...

Nice displays James ! They look great !
It was time for a new custodian and I could not of hoped for a better one !
They in a good safe pair of hands..............I will miss my war room, but time...

Nice and original "jack boots" not Imperial, but IMO WW2 issue....
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Great "little boat" ! These grey versions are not that easy to find, and were worn from around 1970 upto the introduction of the beret in 1979......
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Nice tanker helmets lads !
Made in West Germany but never bought or issued by the Bundeswehr, if any are seen in period images of BW personal wearing, they would of been "borrowed" from other NATO...

Austromunga, no not pre 1970's, it a rarer pre 1960 (worn 1956 to 1960) Officers visor cap, worn by leutnant thro to Oberst, has plastic visor hence no "leaves" to denote junior or senior...

Happy Birthday the Bundeswehr...............
Today is is its 60th anniversary cool militaria
Its come along way since inception and tackled some political hurdles and obstacles along the way
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Unfortunatly not.....generic buttons found on many military & civilian tunics post war.....sorry that I can not give you any more information.
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Hi levaid, sorry but in my opinion that is no Luftwaffe tunic or from any other branch of the Bundeswehr, no BW tunic fastened up to the neck like WW2 tunics, they were all "open" collar...

Hi Doug, that's one I have not seen before ! obviously there's a Naval connection, some sort of commemorative post war (post WW1) award/medal, possibly from one of the smaller Duchies/Principalities...

Update on these great badges/awards...this of my early around 1960 set....made by St u L frosted finished with polished highlights, earliest first pattern tapered pin/solid hinge....much nicer in...

My contribution to this great thread, about a subject not usually discussed on the forum, a Weimar era award to Freikorps members the "Eiserner Roland", this is of course a post war (after WW2)...

To add to this topic here's my nice early EK II & Ost bar.....
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Rarely seen on a 57er ribbon bar....bottom bar in this group of three....it is of later construction, note the rear of all three.
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and here is my earlist ser 57' - 60' period as per Jonas's..........unfortunatly the "C" catch on the Gold has come away :weep:
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It is indeed a late 57er St u L RK....a so called "D" frame, with its sand blasted matt finish frames, much later than the 80's IMO more like the late 90's/early 21st Century , the long suspension...

......and some uncommon 57er wound badges, Silver is a Deumer, the middle black badge is possibly in my opinion an umarked Assmann looking at its thin/wire pin...the third horizontal pin/hinge...

Jonas, nice very early Silver grade example indeed by St u L and you have the period of construction right, 1957-1960, then the next hinge and pin system came along and in 1968 the hinge became...