Martin-

Andreas, wow, thats amazing! These older MVKs are beautiful.

Regards,

Martin

Hi Walter,

vielen Dank! 

Mein MVK1b sieht so aus. Spolei hatte mich darauf hingewiesen. Daher denke ich dass es original ist.

Schöne Grüße,

Martin

And you all know my new MVK2a. Its the one from Chris, which I bought from him today :-)

Thank you Chris!

Mistake in post, trying to delete

Here the bar of Landwehrmann Xaver Hauser. Obviously post-war.

Cladius, Chris, thank you for your warm welcome!

Spolei has helped me via PM to understand why these are indeed fakes, thanks a lot!

The funny thing is that currently there are more 1st class on Ebay than 2nd class. And we all know that this does not reflect the actual award numbers.

So, as promised what little I have so far:

Original post-war bar of Xaver Hauser.

Swords are Deschler.

Cant upload more because the system tries to merge the post and I exceed the upload limit. Which was no problom when I uploaded the 7mb plus photos above... Its not much you are missing, just two late war boxes from Weiss with MVK3rd class.

So they fake the center medallion? I did not expect that. Good to know, thank you!

Imagine paying 100 to 150€ for such a fake!

Thats what I thought! The gold looks so good and new that I can not imagine a 100 year old decoration would look like that. The one with the crown is the only one with a realistic touch to it.

Hi all,

this is my first post here, so please be patient with me.

Recently on German Ebay many MVK1st class have popped up, all of which look repaired or restored. I would like to know your opinion on these pieces which sold for fairly low prices except for the one with crown. On of them was even sold twice, but the old auction from November can not be accessed anymore. 

I myself am very interested in the MVKs so I would like to post more questions and observations in the future. 

Hopefully this post is not too large. A single screenshot from an ipad amounts already to a 7mb file.

Thanks and regards,

Martin