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    Beaten but named EK1


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    That's nice, I find a bashed named cross far more desirable than one that looks like it was afraid to go out on a wet day.

    Paul, I have two named crosses, they aren't overly difficult to find and I'd guess at fewer than 5% are named but those engraved back in the day are probably harder to find.

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    I do love engraved crosses. I have owned a handful over the years, most of which I think I've posted here.

    My personal favourite I own, has the inscription (in German of course) reading;

    "Conceal the longing in your heart with the cross on your breast. Thea."

    Lovely crosses there gents.

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    Nice looking cross Chris.

    I prefer my crosses to have that "been there-done that" look about them.

    I still do not have an engraved cross of my own. I always seem to be a day late and a dollar short.

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    Nice looking cross Chris.

    I always seem to be a day late and a dollar short.

    The last one I had I stupidly sold years ago...... since then I was also a day late and a penny short....

    This was an Ebay Buy it now from a non militaria guy..... sorry to say I missed his other item... a cased EK1 for EUR90 !! But this one fit the pocket quite well....

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    Great cross, Glenn. I really like crosses with personal inscriptions like yours. It's amazing to see how prevelant the engraving of EKs was in the WWI years relative to how uncommon it was during the Second World War.

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    Thanks Brian. True, I haven't seen very many genuine engraved ww2 crosses. Seems to have been more of a norm in ww1. Perhaps the availability and practice of purchasing a nice silver vaulted piece from a jeweller led to more engraving being done as it may have been something offered.

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    I think the nostelgia factor has a lot to do with it....

    If you look at the Photos, Postcards and Feldpost.... maybe up to the very end there seems to still be a romantic view of the war.... then all the way into the 1930s, a nostelgic view....

    I am sure jewellers in the 1920s and 30s were also engraving crosses that friends and family were handing out.... for a guy in uniform, an EK1 was like a Tiara or Necklace for a woman in an evening gown... Who would not have appretiated a nice domed, engraved cross from an od Comrade on his 35th Birthday....

    WW2 came to an end... and noone was engraving crosses after 1945....

    Also... Silver is a nice engraved gift.... a valuable gift.... WW" crosses were cheaper and utilitarian....

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