Chris Boonzaier Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Of course, maybe he lost his EK1 in 1923 and picked up another one, Or GIs stole it in 1945 and he got another one.... Or, like the rest of an intact group this was the Cross awarded to Hautpmann Lempelius in Riga in September 1917. I tend to think it is. I did not get the whole group, but got all the important parts :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 26, 2016 Author Share Posted March 26, 2016 Some more goodies from the group. The Landwehr Medal has been added to complete the bar.... More... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerd Becker Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Now thats a nice documented group. How often did Wilhelm hand out EK´s himself? There can´t be too much of these around, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 26, 2016 Author Share Posted March 26, 2016 Hi, not too rare, they had Kaiser parades and he did masses in one go. he must have handed out tens of thousands during the war. But it is nice to have one :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saschaw Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 On 26/03/2016 at 19:24, Chris Boonzaier said: But it is nice to have one :-) I totally agree there were thousands if not tens of thousands of crosses, both classes, handed over by the Kaiser himself, or by the Kronprinz and others - but in most cases, I fear, we just don't know due to the lack of documentation, so it's that what makes these pieces so special. Here's an extraordinary nice and also pretty interesting example I was able to offer last year: The 1st class EK awarded to Bernhard von Schweinitz (1883–1951) in October 1916. He was honor knight of the Johanniterorden, and won, among others, an HOH3X. Furthermore, he was the adjutant of Prussian prince Adalbert! I bought it as a single award, but luckily, in the mean time it could be reunited with his medal and ribbon bars by one of our friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtwinVince Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Very cool. I had an EK1 that had been awarded by Wilhelm to a Bavarian pilot in 1916 and was engraved as such on the reverse. Pity I don't have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saschaw Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Yeah, I see, but we really cannot keep everything... That's still the probably hardest thing for me about being a dealer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 11, 2020 Author Share Posted November 11, 2020 Often, when there was a parade, the EK docs were changed to show the award had been handed out by the kaiser,,, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toot Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 WOW!! now that is killer!! thanks for sharing with us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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