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Henk, Yes, you may have a picture. Give me your e-mail address and I will make a scan for you. I also have an enlisted man's H.R.15 shoulder strap for the mounted troops overcoat. It is blue with a yellow cypher and crown and a gray cloth backing material.

Does anybody know if a KVK without swords with no mark on the ring is fake or real?

That's no problem Arran

Thanks thats put my mind at ease. Definitely will bring the medal to the shop and get the ribbons changed next time I'm there.

Hi Arran, welcome to the forum, war merit crosses came both with and without makers marks to the ring, so a cross without one is not a bad sign, generally a cross with a makers mark is worth a little more but certainly not a problem not to have a makers mark. Arran, did you buy some medals from us last month including some WW2 stars? If it was yourself I think you asked about how to tell the age of the ribbons? I forgot to say if you would rather have older ribbons, it is no problem for you to bring them down next time you visit the shop and swap the ribbons for older looking ones so they all look the same, we usually have lots of stars in stock so that would not be a problem

These are from Husaren-Regiment 16, which I rescued from the attic of our local Museum

It's the I.R.63, which was named for Franz Josef I, but was granted the new Kaiser Karl's Namenszug after FJI's death. The official change date was November 3, 1917. By 1918 all units of the 12th Division were to wear a colored band across the bottom of their shoulder straps. The 63rd wore yellow, the I.R.23-red, Krankenträger Komp.Nr.15-green, etc. The same Karl cypher was added to the Schulterschnur of the Husar Rgt.Nr.11.