Clive Vincent

Is he loathe to share his canvas? WW1 Pilot's tent flap maybe?

This is an area I have always neglected really, I've tended to get stuck in a particular field of research and npt really given much thought to reading up on the development of air combat. Ragged piece of canvas? Intriguing!

Sascha, thankyou very much for taking the time to explain that to me. Very interesting and has answered a lot of my questions. Much appreciated. Thanks for the welcome Greg! Clive.

Thanks for the welcome Eric. I know old Grofaz stuck his oar in and regulated the size (had to be bigger obviously) and stopped the production of vaulted pieces during the TR period. I've never seen anything suggesting that there was any specific decree that WW1 issued pieces had to be flat though. Has anyone else I wonder? As I say I'd always just assumed rank and file got flat basic pieces due to cost etc. I imagine that a higher rank may well have been given a nice silver cross on award due to it being a bit of an event etc. Just my thoughts though. Don, I've never owned a '39 genuinely vaulted piece but I would love to. I'm more an imperial man myself but for the sake of completeness I do have '39 crosses.

Hello, I'm a long time collector of Iron Crosses of all confllicts and glad to make your aquaintance here. Getting my head around the forum world so bear with me! I'm only going on what I'd always assumed, but my thoughts are that awarded crosses were always flat due to perhaps cost of production and uniformity of awards. I'd never considered award pieces being vaulted but there's really no reason why that should be exclusively the case to my knowledge. There's nothing I've ever found that confirms this but it would seem to make sense to me. As to private purchase pieces it seems plausible that you would have a choice of pieces of varying value, whether higher silver content, vaulted or quality of finish. Just my thoughts on the subject. Hope to enjoy your company here and add something to the forum in my limited way. Cheers, Clive.