Ralph A

#2:

If practical?

Remove everything from the room, including the trim on the walls. Seal every crack you can find with caulk, putty and/or Great Stuff. Don?t forget to pay close attention to the areas around the electrical outlets and lighting switches, and where floors meet ceiling and walls. Paint the walls, ceiling and floor with a good marine paint/sealant; reinstall the trim. Move the door casing back ?? and attach rubber seals. Use a low-nap indoor/outdoor carpet for the floor; no foam padding ? that will only absorb moisture. Get a good ventilation fan that vents to the outside of the house, if possible. Make sure to install the fan on the outside of the house, to draw the air from the room as opposed to "pushing" it out. If you can swing it, build a ?vestibule? outside the entry door, to form a sort of ?airlock.? That way, at least one door is always closed.

Install plenty of lighting, and all around - lots of low-watt bulbs to shine on your collection... keep several on at all times. The heat seepage will dry the air.

Pay particular attention to any windows. Seal them up tight.*

Worked for me. Four years later and no dust, no humidity, no mold. Like walking around inside a display case. It gets fairly humid here in VA at times; I was afraid I would also need a dehumidifier, but to date that has not been necessary.

*my room has no windows, so this might present a problem for you. You might have to seal that sucker up.

Mine has a diffferent dangly thingie:

Get some dessicant packs.

Seal the room off.

Buy a de-humifier.

Move back to Florida.

What we have here is an 85-year old Austrian doctor who while serving with some Hanseatic units in Bulgaria in 1916 stole some poor old Bavarian soldier's greenie.

The bastard.

Details:

Here is a miniature I picked up recently.

Contents:

The boss:

Here is what happened to one of them!

Hi Ralph, yes, it is real.

Glad to hear it. I was hoping the question you asked at the opening of this thread was not a "leading" one.

At a glance, it looks identical to my K & Q.

A Deep Sigh of envey, perminated with garlic schnapps wafts around the room forcing the vampires to pull stiftly back into the shadows of the great castle library. . . .

Edited version:

"A deep sigh of envy, heavy with the scent of garlic schnapps, wafted through the castle?s library to push the vampires back into the shadows that spawned them."

Nice K&Q.

Is it real?

Best I can do...

I can't believe no one had anything to say about the music.* That's easily the best part... the heck with the cross..........

More greats:

http://www.ktecorps.org/trestleboard.html

http://www.ktecorps.org/Coeurdelion.html

And now, I leave you with the official theme song for this thread:

http://www.ktecorps.org/woods.html

*(Is that a triple-negative? Kids, don't try this at home.)

Reminds me of a Japanese wound badge.

I still say the two parts are unrelated. That looks like an EK2 case, to me. It's thin, for one thing, and looks a lot like a couple of my EK2 cases.

Sorry, no ID.

The bar at bottom came to me without the medals. They are merely slipped under the bar and not on the hooks (two of which are missing).

Look closer. one is for an EK1 and the other is for an EK2.

For all lovers of something different, you gotta check this out:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1003...opid=97303&

Final shot. Thanks for looking.

The hardware looks German.

Some misc. shots.

Made in Akron OH, USA...

...well who knows...

I'm going to contact the Lodge and see if they can shed some light on the piece. I would like to know the significance of the date, for one thing; and see if they can tell me when this was made.

It's heavy! My scale is put away, but even without the suspension bar it weighs as much as a Knight's Cross.

A lot of silver is in the thing. Core appears to be brass.

(In the comparison shot below, it's the one in the center. A 1914 EK2 is above it, and a 1914 EK1 is beneath it.)

It's not every day that one sees an American Iron Cross.

It's 25.4mm across its arms, or...

...exactly one inch. Here's a nice comparison:

Reverse.

The Knight's are still there. Check 'em out (gotta love the music!):

http://www.ktecorps.org/StJohns.html

From St. John's Commandery #20 of the Knight's Templar, Youngstown. OH.

Found on eBay. Couldn't resist it.