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My newest 'career on a stick'...
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Pretty dry on the 57er front for me lately, but I did pick up these 3 9mm minis...

As requested...

Also recently picked up this great set of Austrian mini medals. Note the enameled EKs. Not sure if it once had a war badge before the Romanian campaign or not, but it's a great little mount...tough...

Update on this...I managed to find out who bought the rest, and sold the pendant to him at cost. The seller claimed he didn't want it, or to sell, however it turns out (surprise, surprise), the...

A couple of numbered stickpins I picked up in the last month or two...9mm 25 GAB and a 200 PAB. The 200 PAB is unofficial, as obviously it never existed during the war, but versions were produced...

What a bad streak. I won the missing mini planchet that was listed separately so I low bid the pin hoping to reunite the minis, lost the pin, then got sniped and lost the minis. Mini buyer neither...

Thank you.

I hesitate to say 'will', as I don't know how stiff the competition will get, but I will say "These MIGHT be mine!"

Very interesting...it looks like the owner tried to touch up the KVK and IAB with some poor silver paint on both the stickpin and ribbon bar. Indeed...the mini medals and pin do interest me...I...

New 6 place St&L Luftwaffe RK pin. Well worn, most of the finish is gone and the vet mounted it with a pinback...I've seen this a few times and been wanting to pick up such a conversion
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9 award, 10 piece stickpin to a veteran of the 93rd Infanterie Regiment... this one was modified by the vet or a friend/relative at some point to add the 93rd IR crest. The clasp is on the bottom and...

Forgot to post this one somehow...it was my first 3-row to a Demjansk vet

Next...minis involving 16mm pendant/charms...

Mounted Mini Medals...
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Loose mini medals, including an RK with oaks. These can be really tough to find loose and almost always show signs of...

My ribbon-related minis. I haven't gotten too involved with ribbons yet, probably because they're the most reproduced of 57er minis

Some ribbons I have no idea what to make of...kind of odd....

I thought so but he wasn't so sure. Was also looking at a mini medal bar at the time on eBay that probably added to the hesitation. Didn't win that one either

I did not...I was debating it but he mentioned the RK was EKI size...not unheard of but enough to make me think long enough someone else got it. I will post my chains in this thread tonight

My last few stickpins at the moment, a couple of 8 award combos and a 10 award...

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Some 7 placers...

A nice Demjansk combo...
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Great pin to a vet who earned a Finnish award during the war and continued to serve post-war...
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DAK and Russia vet...served both...

A few 6-placers...

Kriegsmarine one at the bottom...I've found the KM combos the toughest to come by
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Nice U-Boat combo...
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Luftwaffe vet with Romanian awards...
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Some 5-place awards...starting to get very interesting...

Nahkampfspange combos...
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One of the few examples of St&L pieces with a non-overlapping award. You generally see this done when a...

Some 4 place pins...

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DKiG combo...
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RK combo...
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3 Place Stickpins...

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An interesting pin, sadly missing the center badge, depicting all 3 grades of the Kraftfahrbewährungsabzeichen. It's not unusual to see such redundancy in...

2-Place Stickpins...

EK I & II combos...you could argue these are a single as otherwise it's difficult to differentiate between an EKI and EKII. The double cross single charm is a Deumer style,...

Non-Branch Specific Awards...

Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz 9mm & 16... Note the Imperial style. Imperial awards continued to be made post-war for veterans by the same firms producing 57ers....

Campaign Award Single Stickpins...

Narvik 9mm
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Kuban 9mm
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Cholm 16mm & 9mm... Once upon a time I was told that these shields weren't made in 16mm, but have since found a few that...