Stogieman

Gordon, any chance on picking up the contrast on the front photo please? I need to see the wreath better. I prefer the round magnetic pin variant myself....... anyway, a bit clearer on the wreath please. Thanks!

Excellent........ now, what was the mini that Wild Card just showed??? C'mon now, put the "Thinking Cap" on!!

I'm thinking post 1935 bar and you're most likely to see a civil 25/40 on that bar......

Well, I'm curious and it's cute.

My only question is the numbering..

No. 19

The Russians used "No." as a prefix?

Just curious

Could also be a Hohenzollern medal in first place.

yep, brand new HP "All in One" and it makes crappy scans, must resort to astro-turf and/or Evil Twin Scanner

What I'd like to know is who's ripping off my astro-turf backing again!

Well, I wish i could accomadate you. When this appeared I backed off after several friends in Germany cautioned me that the seller was known for "dubious" pieces. I should have bought anyway, it's the only one I have ever seen. If I had seen even 1 or 2 more, I would not be so perplexed.... but ONE!???

Well, only the second converted '70 EK2 I've seen. Joe, I love the cherub on that broach!!

Whoops! Take a HARD look at Mike Huxley's post #65 & #66!!!

That's the ?ltere Linie, Reuss silver medal f?r Treue und Verdienst 1867-1918! That's a first!

Hi Andreas, my concerns with this "shadow" as I called it:

"Here better scans of the medallion, obverse and reverse. I do not have this cross in front of me (my brother has) and he told me that the hand painting of the eagle looks almost like a "decal"... man! When I heard that it raised my hair... Claudio"

"The design of the eagle looks good. I have to say, and I hate to say this, but there does appear to be a clear outline visible around some parts of the eagle. This could be a very carefully painted clearcoat to protect the painted design, but it looks like a decal. If you had not mentioned it, I would have never seen it.

Dan Murphy"

I am also concerned with a 3g. +/- discrepency in weight from Nimmergut's..... that's a pretty big difference for a gold piece.

Chris.... you are surprisingly shallow with this one issue. I am disappointed. You should have popped Brown and run off with Hannah!!

I think the wreath and the finish on that UK fake should be enough to send a collector running. Yuck!

Has anybody else noticed how there's just no shortage of these boxed bronze ones floating around??

..... and to boot, the cross appears to be silver-gilt. I thought all of these were gold?? If this is a hoax, it was a very expensive one to prepare and I would expect to have seen a number of these... but to date, 13 months after this one appeared, I have never seen another example!

And a final shot....

and another. The problem is I've never seen that style of box used for anything else.... nor have I ever seen that little round embossed MMJO stamp either....

More photos

What you have is what appears to be the standard, late-war Bavarian slide-box as used primarily for various grades of the MVK.....

I've raised this question before, in other places, but we shall try it again here. Does anybody have any examples of this little gem?

Nah, they're stuffed in the basement of an old air raid tower, currently being used by mice as bedding.... when they are found, we will all weep mightily at what might have been...

I cannot remember seeing more than 5 or 6 of these. Nice find!

Maybe Marcus will share his packet with us? I'd love to see that added to the thread! Still the ONLY example of this seen........

PS: Tony! Welcome to the forum! I look forward to seeing many of your posts to come!