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    Eric Stahlhut

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    1. the officer from the 5th regt not only has the ek2 and turkish star, he has an ek1!
    2. WOW! p.s. perhaps he received the awards for losing his left eye? too bad we can't see if he has a wound badge as well
    3. hi sascha, just curious--how is the fit of the hinge to the rear of the cross-- is the hinge fully soldered on, or is it attached in the same fashion as my example?
    4. let's not forget about how the pandemic has affected our hobby. thanks to the dreaded "spicy cough" there have been very few local flea markets, garage sales, and other similar venues. no more easy pickings for people who know what they are looking at Exactly, this is ultimately the greatest threat to our hobby, in my opinion
    5. "trust in god and keep your powder dry" --oliver cromwell, early 1800s "keep your eyes peeled" is what i say over here in the new world i don't know about you gentlemen, but personally, it's been extremely difficult to source decent iron crosses lately unless one is prepared to pay ridiculous prices, which i refuse to do! for me, part of the satisfaction of collecting comes from finding things that are "out in the wild" and not on a dealer website or on a dealer's table or store
    6. Bund Deutscher Krieger, and the A could be the town? If he customized his dkig or dkis there's a good chance that he did the same to his other badges, too
    7. i'mn not selling anything, i was referring to the very rare two incuse-marked crosses whose maker has yet to be determined
    8. especially the picture of my own crosses ?? ? v. Perlet-- nothing wrong with that clamshell
    9. years ago, the forum went through an upgrade, and unfortunately many of the attachments did not "upgrade" automatically. on some old threads the pictures have to be processed manually in order to be included in the latest version
    10. wow, that's something you don't see every day. i've always wondered how "permanent" that finish was-- if it came off naturally through time and wear, or did original owners have to dedicate some degree of effort to remove it because they didn't like the verdigris look
    11. yes, i recognized it. this is only the third example i've ever encountered of that type in any condition. the rarest! too bad it seems to lack the incused crown/moon/800 hallmark. thank you for the additional pictures!
    12. i was going to throw on a couple of werners to accompany graf's op cross, but during my search i found this one-piece, nonmagnetic ugly duckling: on this petz & lorenz, the rub marks on the reverse of the cross actually match up with the replacement cruciform backing plate
    13. All of the allied countries are listed on an oak tree--a huuuuge symbol of strength and endurance in teutonic culture the word weltdenk means that the world stops to reflect (on the war). that's why i hinted at a pacifist/antiwar organization, of which there were many during the 20s, early 30s in germany
    14. hiya, graf--any further images of this one? i like the field-repaired/adapted ones, as sometimes the materials used can tell a story.
    15. Here's an interesting badge made by hofstatter in bonn. it's larger than a DRA or DRL badge. reference sticker on reverse (peter groch) states they also came in bronze and silver grades, 1935, and that they've sold for a decent amount at a past HH auction. Has anyone been able to identify this organization yet? maybe religious or lefty-pinko-banned-political-party pacifistic anti-war memorial?
    16. doesn't mean the cross is bad, this sort of thing happened all of the time (as vince says) bitd. sometimes the secondary attachments were done crudely and sometimes they were done very artfully. still like it!
    17. i've just realized something very obvious regarding the attachment system. the back of the cross has a circular rub mark which means it had a circular retaining disc. maybe the rub mark came from that black piece of gunk on the cruciform backing plate, hard to tell with these pics
    18. the manufacturing process for the body of the cross was basically the same, and there were certain stipulations that had to be followed such as dimensions, etc. each maker generally had their own dies for the frames and core components, so each maker can posess unique design characteristics. if you are serious about learning more, the information is right under your nose. please take some time to read the old threads many of the "fancier" attachment systems were patented, such as the KMSt, Meybauer, AWS types, so if you find an unmarked version with a certain type of attachment it's a pretty safe bet it's from a certain maker sometimes cores and frames were outsourced, and that's why we find "generic" crosses that are hard to identify because they do not display any unique characteristics from any particular maker. there were manufacturers of components that sold them wholesale to smaller outfits
    19. for me the screwback werner is just fine-- i have a well worn unmarked example, but it has a period-replaced disc and backing plate, so i can't definitively say whether the attachments on graf's are proprietary. sure looks good, though!
    20. here's the obverse. i think that when these first came out the story that was attempted to be spun regarding these was that they were kaiserliche marine award pieces or something along those lines, which was a spurious attemp to explain the mark above the hinge. they really blew it when they decided to place the K.A.G. mark under the pin instead of on that nice fat wide pin
    21. unfortunately this version is considered to be a fake . i have a cased (fake case as well) example that i obtained quite cheaply about 10 years ago
    22. intriguing! is it a mini or prinzen-sized version? seems that a regular-sized cross would make for an oversized bracelet--especially for a lady
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