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Waldo, wow! Amazing bars!

It's an award piece. A very rough estimate would be 1915-1918. This due to that the early Godet's around 1914/early 1915 had cast iron core. The later ones (I estimate)from 1915 onwards had a stamped steel sheet core like yours.

My Saxon bar.

Good to know, didn't know about these. Anyways, the Tirol connection does in my opinion confirm it the the Gebrigs-Artillerie-Abteiling 2 which was a former unit of the Alpenkorps which fought in Tirol.

Here it is.

A friend of mine offered this. What are your opinions of it? I have no idea whatsoever what it could be nor the value. So what is a wise price to pay and what exactly is this sword?

No, but I managed o narrow it down to the unit as there was only one Bavarian unit in the Ostsee-Division. Perhaps more your taste as it was the Kgl. Bayerische Gebirgs-Artillerie-Abteilung Nr. 2, which had previously a part of the Alpenkorps before being transferred to the Ostsee-Division which fought in Finland.

My only Bavarian bar that's a bit special.

Wow, what a bar!

Quite a rare grouping for sale at Weitze. https://www.weitze.net/militaria/53/Bayern_Militaer_Max_Josef_Orden_Ritterkreuz_aus_dem_Besitz_Hauptmann_Grauvogel__269253.html

Perhaps some people really wanted to make sure you wouldn't end up with the burden of having all the Leib Regiment related items

That's what I look like as it's a photo of me My friends have told me as well that I look like an Axe killer, however I'm just a normal Finnish guy (that's a link I find fitting).

Thanks for the compliment, it's my pleasure to help.

S&L type and a Fritz Zimmermann (6).

Saxon pentagon fold on period picture. There's a link to a thread on this forum of a photo which shows the "traditional" or nationalist fold of Saxony. I recall having myself a single-mount EK2 on this type Saxon mount somewhere.

I've noticed the Saxon mount isn't really an tri-fold like the Austrian ones. They're usually more like 5-edged in a similar shape of a tri-fold, but leaning more towards a pentagon.

Thanks all!

It arrived today, it looks a lot better in hand than on the photos. Besides, I do love rich patina on silver

No. It's just not a Schinkel.

No.

Seems so, even if prices were down for a few years. One reason why the price drop never was so radical is that the prices weren't originally that high after all relative to other nations awards, considering the rarity of many orders. Think what the price would be for a German or British gallantry order that was awarded only 167 times... We're lucky the prices aren't higher as they could be higher

Wow, 938€ is a lot of money!

Things are starting to get interesting, can't wait to see the hammer price as I haven't seen one for sale in years in an auction. This particular cross has been auctioned twice, it seems to be a quite good investment piece. Just to make things clear I'm myself not a bidder, I'm just following the auction.

Prices have gone down in recent years, but the rarities do still today have quite a price tag. I do have seen a slight increase in prices this autumn, e.g. Holmasto auctioned a 1941 2.Class Cross of Liberty for 600€ + 24% buyers premium which is the highest I've seen in a while (auction of 30th September). Considering that 1160 of these -41 models awarded contrary to the 167 of the -39 model awarded I'm expecting the Ebay cross to go for more than what it went in the Künker auction. For the moment the price is 603€, it's on a good way of going for more than what it was purchased for.

That cross is worth a lot more than what it was sold at Künker.