Robin Lumsden

Around $100 USD.

I don't have a tin ................ but I do have this !!

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Original.

Similar item ................

Could be father and son ..........................

20-odd years later .......................

Always liked this Sluyterman illustration ...................

Agreed.

But, in my opinion, if an army doctor certified that a wound was severe enough to merit the award of an EK2, then the big-shots would confirm it.

To do otherwise would have been .......................... 'unpopular' ............... with those at the sharp end, to say the least.

Bear in mind that until March 1918, soldiers losing their sight, legs, arms and other 'precious' bits had nothing other than the lowly EK2 to recognise their life-changing sacrifices for the Vaterland.

The EK2 would not have been given for a flesh wound, but would most certainly have been given for multiple wounds or a wound that would have later merited the Wound Badge in Silver or Gold.

And there were plenty of those between 1914 and March, 1918.

Painters ? Priceless !!

Based on these (and other) photos of artillery/grenadier specialist badges, an exploding stick-grenade seems a reasonable proposition.

Thanks again.

Sure it isn't for qualified vegetable growers ??

Radishes go well with beer in the Munich neck-of-the-woods.

Assuming this principle held good for 1914-18 as well, it would explain the huge number of EK2s being dished out before the introduction (belatedly) of the Wound Badge.

When I wrote about all this back in 1987, folks thought I was talking nonsense.

No change there, then !

There has been much debate in the past as to whether or not Field Surgeons could make recommendations for awards of the EK2 based on WOUNDS ALONE, with no account taken of bravery or leadership in the field.

These documents say that they could !!

Anyone any idea if these are both OK ??

There is an obvious difference in the bottom panels for the holder's number.

Left one is flat, right one is slightly convex.

Nice !!

As a Gefreiter with an EK1, he could have ended up leading the country !!

Welcome!

Wonderful work !!

Another TK-related oddity .................... a 'Heimat' cuff title.

Photo dated 1919.

Just glad to get home alive, I guess !!

First decent FW postcard I come across, Tom ............... it's yours!

I just want to place things on the record here.

Following post #1725 in this thread, Thomas W. generously gave me the badge shown below .................... for FREE !!

He even covered the shipping costs from the other side of the world.

What a gentleman he is.

Truly worthy of our 'Gentlemen's Club' .

I hope that, some day, I can return the favour.

Thanks, Tom.

Perhaps this design was a taste of things to come .......................

Reminds me of these oddities ...................

................ supposedly Minenwerfer.

Despite two of them having black skulls, I am not convinced.

Thanks again. Makes perfect sense.

So ................... maybe this interpretation of your own photo best sums things up ...................... ??