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Light blue cloth with red piping - the color for Austrian generals

Double row of gold buttons

On the cuffs, the Marshal's rank: gold embroidery with the oak leaves. Only the Emperor and a few Field Marshals could wear it.

The label says it was made in 1848 by Carl & Sohn in Vienna. Franz Joseph became Emperor in December 1848 at just 18 years old, so this is one of his earliest tunics. Acquired by Diego de Henriquez from Schloss Schönbrunn? It says after 1999 it was authenticated.

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Spotted in Trieste: complete 1915 patriotic model of the Škoda 30.5 cm Mörser M.11.Those desk models were NOT made by Škoda Pilsen.

Škoda only built 79 real 30.5 cm guns between 1911-1918. They never made souvenirs. 3fd0

Your model is a "Patriotisches Modell" / "Kriegsfürsorge-Modell":

Who made them:

Small private foundries and art workshops in Vienna, Budapest, Reichenberg, and Trieste itself

Often firms that normally made door handles, church bells, or chandeliers - like J. Berger, G. A. Scheid, or local bronziers in Trieste's old ghetto

Cast in brass / iron / spelter from melting down whatever they had, then hand-finished.

They were sold usually at War Exhibitions (Kriegsausstellung Wien 1916), War Charity kiosks, and in shops like the one you found

Money went to: Widows and orphans fund, Red Cross, or "Submarine donation" / "U-Boot Spende"

Price in 1915: around 25-40 Kronen - a full month's wage for a worker. So only officers, doctors, lawyers bought them for their desk.

Price nowadays, much more!

ow to spot original vs post-war reproduction:

Original = heavy, 2-3 kg, barrel separately cast and elevates, carriage shows real recoil system with 2 cylinders above barrel

Marble base = almost always Rosso / Aurisina Karst marble from near Trieste - very typical for Pola and Trieste coastal artillery officer models

Often they had a secret inkwell or match holder under the base .

The 22.5 cm Minenwerfer M 15 was a heavy mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I.[1] It was developed by Böhler as an alternative to the German Ehrhardt 25 cm schwere Minenwerfer which Böhler was having problems building under license. It was a muzzle-loading, smooth-bore mortar that had no recoil system whatsoever. The entire mortar had to be levered around to aim at new targets. It was not particularly accurate and bombs often fell over in flight and landed on their sides so they used time instead of contact fuzes. It fired high-explosive and gas shells. For transport two wheels from the Gebirgsgechütz M 99 were used.

echnical Data: 22.5 cm Minenwerfer M 15 (Böhler)

Caliber: 225 mm (22.5 cm)

Barrel type: Smooth-bore, muzzle-loading

Total weight: 432 kg (with sled, without wheels)

Projectile weight: 48 kg (high explosive or gas)

Rate of fire: 2-3 rounds / minute

Elevation: +25° to +75°

Max range: ∼1,100 - 1,300 m (depending on propellant charge)

Crew: 4 men

Service: 1915-1918, Austro-Hungarian Army, also used by Ottoman Empire

photos: K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien

https://www.armedconflicts.com/22-cm-Minenwerfer-Boehler-Kapfenberg-t86701

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/22,5-cm-Minenwerfer\_M.15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22.5\_cm\_Minenwerfer\_M\_15

War museum de Hernriquez Trieste

STRASSER

KAISERJÄGER

Roland Strasser (1895-1974) - Austrian painter. This print is from his 1914-15 field sketches of the Tiroler Kaiserjäger in Galicia. He later became quite famous for his Bali paintings.

Photo: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/1900-collage-candy-advertising-calendar--176766354102654571/

An Austro-Hungarian Feldküche, popularly called Gulaschkanone — “goulash cannon” because of the long chimney that looks like a cannon barrel.

a mobile military cooking system used to prepare and transport hot meals for troops.

The name Gulaschkanone refers to the kitchen’s cannon-like appearance: a large cooking boiler mounted on a two-wheeled carriage, often with a chimney and towing shafts. Despite the nickname, it was not specifically limited to goulash. Typical meals included:

Goulash and other stews

Bean or pea soup

Potatoes and vegetables

Coffee or tea

Occasionally meat or sausage dishes

In the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, field kitchens were generally horse-drawn and operated behind or near the front lines. They allowed cooks to prepare food away from the immediate battlefield and deliver it in insulated containers or cooking vessels to companies and battalions. Conditions varied greatly: transport problems, fuel shortages, weather, and disrupted supply lines could leave soldiers with reduced or delayed rations.

The term Gulaschkanone continued in German military usage after the Habsburg era and became especially associated with later German field kitchens. For a strictly Austro-Hungarian World War I description, Feldküche or mobile field kitchen is usually the more precise term; Gulaschkanone is the familiar colloquial name.

Technical & Historical details:

This is the late model small Feldküche, k.u.k. M.09 / M.15 type, built with a double-wall boiler filled with glycerin. System invented by Karl Fissot in the 1890s and adopted by all Central Powers.

Why glycerin? Direct fire burned the food. The glycerin bath works as a water-bath (bain-marie) — indirect heating up to ∼150L soup, goulash, coffee. Food stays warm for hours without burning. That's exactly what the plate on your museum photos says: check glycerin level with the dipstick on the cap.

Construction: Sheet steel, riveted. Two kettles — large main boiler (125-175 litres) for soup/goulash and small front boiler (60 litres) for coffee/tea. Wood-fired firebox underneath, tall demountable chimney. Two large wooden spoked wheels with iron rims. Weight about 400-500 kg empty. Drawn by 2 horses, or by hand with shafts.

Use: Every infantry company had one. It followed as close as possible to the trenches — on the Isonzo Front, on the Carso, often up to 500m behind the first line at night. In the Dolomites and Carnia they were carried up in parts.

Manufacturers: Mostly Warchalowski, Eissler & Co. in Vienna, and factories in Budapest.

The photo is part of my collection and was probably taken on the eastern front,

The unfortunately rusty field kitchen belonged to the Diego de Henriquez museum in Trieste n

The Sailors’ Uprising of Cattaro, or Cattaro Mutiny, was a revolt by sailors of the Austro-Hungarian Navy at the Bay of Cattaro—now Kotor, Montenegro—from 1 to 3 February 1918, during the final year of World War I.

The uprising was driven by:

Severe food shortages and poor conditions

War exhaustion after years of conflict

Anger at naval officers and military discipline

Influences from the Russian Revolution

Support for peace, democratization, and national self-determination

The revolt began aboard the cruiser SMS Sankt Georg and quickly spread to roughly 30–40 ships and several thousand personnel. Sailors raised red flags, removed or confined some officers, and formed sailors’ councils. Their demands included an immediate negotiated peace, political democratization, improved provisions, and recognition of the rights of the empire’s nationalities. Wikipedia1

The mutiny failed because it remained largely confined to Cattaro, lacked decisive leadership and a unified strategy, and was opposed by loyal naval and army units. By 3 February, the authorities had regained control. Around 800 participants were arrested, and four leading mutineers—Franz Rasch, Jerko Šižgorić, Anton Grabar, and Mato Brničević—were executed on 11 February 1918. Wikipedia1

Although unsuccessful, the uprising revealed the deep disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian military and state. It also anticipated the more influential Kiel Mutiny in Germany later that year, which helped trigger the German Revolution and the end of the monarchy.

photos:Copyright: mauritius images / United Archives

https://laststandonzombieisland.com/tag/cattaro-mutiny/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattaro\_mutiny

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q859095

The artist is Gustav Adolf Carl Closs (1864-1938), German painter, illustrator and heraldist.

Born in Stuttgart, son of woodcut artist Adolf Closs, he studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and Munich. For 20 years he was a lead illustrator for the famous German journals Die Gartenlaube and Fliegende Blätter.

Considered primarily a painter, he created large wall paintings for castles, worked on commissions for Kaiser Wilhelm II and King Carol I of Romania, and later became Deputy-Chairman of the Berlin Heraldry Association.

During WWI he produced a well-known series of Feldpostkarten showing the Austro-Hungarian army — including the heavy 30.5cm mortar, the Kaiserjäger in the Alps, and life at the front.

photo: https://id.pinterest.com/pin/476677941801956239/

Source: https://ca.pinterest.com/pin/uniformen-wwi--318911217339489333/

Photo: https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/wwi-37-cm-m15-infantry-gun-deep-dive/549588

original title: : Inspizierung des Sturmbataillons durch .Landesverteidigungsminister Exzellenz Georgi in Selva bei Levico

photo:: K.u.k. Kriegspressequartier, Lichtbildstelle - Wien

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library

Accession number

WK1/ALB080/23827

Kurt Gruber (1896 – 4 April 1918) was an Austro-Hungarian flying ace during the First World War who held the rank of Offiziersstellvertreter. He was credited with eleven aerial victories, 5 shared with other pilots.

Kurt Gruber was born in 1896 in Linz, Austria. Gruber was a technical student studying engineering in Saxe-Altenburg, Germany when World War I began.

He began service in the Austro-Hungarian army at the outbreak of war in 1914. He volunteered to transfer to aviation. He was accepted for pilot's training because of his engineering background. By August 1915 he was assigned to Flik 1 on the Russian Front under Hauptmann Otto Jindra. Gruber became the pilot of choice for the observers of the group. In September he was promoted to Zugsführer (lance sergeant). In January 1916 he received his first Silver Bravery Award.

Gruber scored his first aerial victories on 14 April, 2 May, and 6 June 1916, with Godwin Brumowski manning the observer's guns in the Albatros B.I on the 2nd. The 6 June victory was the first by a lone Austro-Hungarian aviator; flying without a gunner, he used his front machine gun to force a Morane-Saulnier Parasol to land.

On 1 June Gruber was promoted well ahead of cycle to Feldwebel (sergeant). Ten weeks later he was promoted to Stabsfeldwebel (sergeant major). In December 1916 Gruber was assigned a five-month test pilot stint at the Army Air Service Arsenal. In mid-May 1917 he was assigned to Austria-Hungary's first true fighter squadron, Flik 41J. On 21 May 1917 he spun in from low altitude, destroying his Hansa-Brandenburg D.I and suffering injuries that kept him non-operational until September.[1] He scored his fourth victory on 29 September. He became both an ace and a balloon buster on 3 October 1917 when he destroyed an Italian observation balloon.[4] This late in the war, he was still flying an Albatros D.III without interrupter gear; the airplane's machine gun was angled to the left to fire past the end of the propeller arc.

Gruber was transferred to Flik 60J on 23 December 1917, under Frank Linke-Crawford. The squadron was equipped, with the Phönix D.I.[1] Between 10 January and 4 April 1918, Gruber scored six more victories.[4] Gruber was shot down and killed on 4 April 1918 in combat with Sopwith Camels of No 66 Squadron, moments after his final claim.[1]

Gruber was recommended by his commanding officers for commissioning as an officer, but the Austro-Hungarian military did not believe in battlefield promotions. Kurt Gruber died as a senior sergeant. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Bravery Medal for the fourth time, becoming one of only two quadruple recipients of the decoration (Julius Arigi). He was buried with honors at Feltre, Italy.

source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt\_Gruber\_(aviator)

photos:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Austro-Hungarian\_World\_War\_I\_flying\_aces

Original description: Geschütz der 1 G.Kn. 5 am Hange der Brückenköpfe

photo: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library

Accession number

WK1/ALB032/08718

source: https://forummg.info/viewtopicgallery.php?t=857&start=40&utm\_medium=organic&utm\_source=yandexsmartcamera

source: scanned from the book „Das Ende einer Armee“ by Fritz Weber. The source therein says: „Kriegsarchiv Wien“

photo: https://visit.przemysl.pl/en/446-przemysl-the-good-soldier-vejk-in-przemysl?utm\_medium=organic&utm\_source=yandexsmartcamera

source: Digital Library of Slovenia