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05-02-2012, 11:27 AM	#24
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,055 Thanks: 1,128 Thanked 5,297 Times in 1,732 Posts	Hold me in Honor would be the literal or word-for-word translation of 'Halte mich in Ehren'. "Honor me" would be the idiomatic transliteration conveying the "sense" of the phrase, so you are closer to the intent of the inscription. But to someone not used to the German idiom the 'hold me in honor' isn't strange. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

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