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You're welcome! Best regards, Martin

Hello, Sorry to say, but I am afraid this cross does not look like an original to me. The finish is very crude, the size of the flanges differ from left to right and and bottom. The wearing looks very artificial. The pin style is one you encounter on Latvian fakes. To me it is a very crude cast copy. Best regards, Martin

Dear all, Anyone who can identify this maker? I can't make anything out of the MM and identifying by characteristics is impossible for me, with 1914 crosses. I thought I'd recognised a faint 4 but I don't think this cross is likely to have a Pr?sidal Kanzlei number. Thanks in advance for your time and trouble! Best regards, Martin

I've been browsing through your pages, and your collection can be called anything but SMALL! Change the topic title! Outstanding! How in the name of our good Lord have you been able to collect 198 fire eagles ? ? ? ? ? ? I've been checking, you have not been double posting... Great work! Best regards, Martin

My guess is a donation pin, maybe even a membership pin. But it is a guess.

And this was behind the cover flap. You need to take a close look, but I guess those are beard hairs...

I had a similar experience with my Hunyadi soldbuch. This is the book:

Thanks for your reaction, Greg. So this was probably made to put between a real 1914 core. I can't believe people would actually ruin a good piece, but alas... 1 euro well spend to study a fake! It could have been worse. Best regards, Martin

Don, your card is signed by Alfred Roth, I' thought I heard of that name before and indeed he was the antisemitic mud thrower I thought he was. He made this Deutsch-V?lkische Schutz- und Trutzbund big. This was the filthy corner where Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart, Julius Streicher, Werner Best, Kurt Daluege and Fritz Sauckel came from. I think this stuff is very, very interesting. I learned a lot from this simple corn flower, thanks for posting! Regards, Martin

Der Deutsch-V?lkische Schutz- und Trutzbund = something like the German 'People' Protection- and Pride League or Bund. Sorry I wasn't more clear yesterday... Babelfish is up again, so here's a vague translation (partly Babelfish, partly me) of the German part: The German Deutsch-People Protection and Pride Bund was an anti-Semitic 'people' organization in the Weimar Republic. Founded in 1919. The federation represented the largest 'v?lkische' and anti-Semitic organization in the early Weimar Republic. By 1922 it had 200,000 members over 600 local groups. The members had to prove their arian descent, as association symbol served the swastika. The principal activity of the Protection and Pride Bund existed in racistic and revisionistic propaganda. It spread anti-Semitic rushing writings as for instance falsified 'The protocols of the Elders of Zion'. Also civil and social-democratic politicians were attack targets of the agitation. The assassins of the politicians Erzberger, Scheidemann und Rathenau maintained close contacts to the federation. By 1922 the federation was forbidden in most countries of Germany. Many members changed thereupon into the NSDAP.