Sal Williams

This one looks bad to me but better pics would help a lot.

Best, Sal

Hi Ricky, I have not done anything to it. Just waiting for advise and mulling it over. The reason I contemplate it is because I can turn the thing about 1/8 turn back and forth so I dont believe it is glued in some way in place. Also the entire dagger seems completely unmonkeyed with. Seems as if it is seized up a little higher on the threads on the inside. A question I have is what is the inside of the orange grip made of? I know some of the white types are wooden centered.

best, Sal

So by the picture you are in agreement with me correct jacques?

I would say not a good one.

Best, Sal

Hi fellows, I have an odd situation here. I recently got a beautiful WKC hammered scabbard KM dagger with orange grip. Really nice set in place portapee so I don't want to remove it. The grip is loose (noticably) yet the pommel is tight. I wanted to unscrew the pommel to see if the threads (and spacing ) might allow one more turn. I found that the pommel will turn perhaps 1/8 of a turn but no more. I don't want to forced it , but why would it turn a little and no more? Corrosion? I thought about putting penetrating oil in the joint between the grip and pommel but I dont want to get it on the portapee and I don't want a reaction with the grip. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Sal

Hi Jody, yes al lot of them went to KM, but I believe quite a number went to ground crews, administrative, anything behind the lines. Crews of ships that saw action all got the silver grade. So I can't answer your question precisly but if the KM got the majority of Bronze w/o swords I don't believe it was by any means a lanslide victory

Chris, not anything like the Spanish helmets I have seen. Not that I have seen everything there is to see by any means.

Do you mean how many Bronze w/o swords went to KM?

best, Sal

Stephen.

Water Police eagles were gold on blue.......that one is for an officer of the Fire Police.

Is there an earth and Wind Police? They could form a group!

Police marine units responsible for patrolling waterways.

By the way, my eagle came out of Austria 30 years ago. If you listen closely you can hear the Blue Danube Waltz playing.

thank you Stephan!

Uhhhhhh.... dumb question , but,... Waterpolice?

Best, Sal

L/52 for Zimmermann. It is a variant of this maker. I think the cross is OK.

May be other opinions?

jacques

I don't know jacques, the eagles, especially the reverse of them look strange no?

Hello !

What do you think about this cross? original or good copie ?

Many thanks in advance

giorgio

Looks like a bad one to me. The center disk really looks wrong. See what jacques has to say but I think it is fake.

best, Sal

Is this pic connected?

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13966

Hi Che, but not all the badges in photos are sewn on.

Never seen anyone identify, scan and post so fast!!!!!

AI yi yi!!! I see you have been busy Jacques!!! I don't even have one let alone an incredible group like this!!! Poor old Sal!

I would post some but Francois has all of them in the world

That is a beaut! Score for sure with a schinkel on it and LC to boot!

I saw this guy on ebay, curious about the awards and uniform. They said it was early 30's

Hi Sal-

My pleasure, do you have any more info on him that you could provide?

If you would like to see other death cards, please let me know.

Best,

Vincent

Hi Vincent, no I don't have any other info on him but if you try the reasearch section of the forum those boys are quite amazing and you never know what they might dig up. Also if you post it on the fallschirmjaeger section of WAF they might have more info on him as well.

I am interested to see any documents concerning the legion condor if you have more!

Hi Vincent, Yes I had him in my list but only a terrible ebay pic of the card, thanks much for the good pics!

best, Sal

Vincent,

If you have any cards with the spanish cross awarded I would appreciate pics very much for my SC traeger list I am working on!

Thanks, Sal

Che, it seems to me that you can see where a hinge was. Why do you think these were made without pins? I don't see good evidence for that theory.

Best, Sal

HOW???? That is downright scary Glenn!!!!!!!!