Bernd_W

For what you would use the ribbons?

On the Kuenker page its cut of but in the plain html you will find:

(SEIT 1935) IRAN (BIS 1979)

So it was awarded after WW1.

Google reverse image search is a good tool.

https://www.kuenker.de/en/archiv/stueck/58474

Then he is wearing it 90 degree rotated. 

Well, thats your Opinion. Also in most cases you will never know, so value wont be affected. AFAIK restoring in this way is not deprecated in the collectors community. Might be something different when you change an award because its damaged, or there is a ribbon which was used for several awards and you replace the award to one in your opinion more fitting one without any ranklist indication or you took a damaged award to a jeweler or a dentist lab and its repaired looking like a period work.

It was more like a joke about the word you choose. But, I dont get the point. IMO the Schnalle is now, how it was while being onto Mr. Schillings chest. Isn't it? If the damaged white falcon was also changes I would understand your concerns, but dont look like. 

Befummelt is something happening at the Domplatte at 31.12.

This bar ist just restored. 

He could habe worn it with the reverse to the front because he was a fan of Coco Chanel, who was also a opposite of the Nazis. Just joking. 

IMO Lt. Schlodder is mentioned in the continuous text. He  is not mentioned as sender, which IMO was cut of.

Addition: 

The white armband was official issued. See left side, right  column, upper third.

So there had been an official order when to wear it I guess.

Thanks to member soldbuch from WAF for posting the picture there.

The ribbon above the order in question? Its imo the Prince Alfons commemorative badge like Flavio suggested. 

Hello gents

In the second Schleswig War, the Germans wore white armbands to differ from the Danish. The early Freikorps in January 1919 also wore white armbands to differ from the Spartakists. Later they had some with inscriptions onto.

But, what's the purpose for white armbands w/o an inscription in WW1? Are there any official regulations about this?

I have seen pictures of fully dressed stormtroopers with white armbands online:

I have this picture in my collection. It's the RIR 240. I checked the regimental History, and the 3rd battalion was in some resting place in Flanders, at train station Vyfwege in early September 1916.

Kind regards

I would love to lay my hands onto such a nice piece. 

3 hours ago, Stogieman said:

but I checked with some real experts

In their hands?

I hope as a Nazi Britt zombie?

Great pictures.

So a Prussian flamethrower writes to a KuK one. Likely they trained together?

Any idea for what these thin sticks? Looks bit to small for walking sticks. 

10 hours ago, bolewts58 said:

So, it's actually both a WW1 award and a Freikorps award.

Also awarded for border defense in the Ukraine and Belarus against the Russians before (11.) November 1918?

Yes, its possible to bid in the last 10 seconds w/o a sniper tool but you have to be present. But in last <5 second its almost impossible w/o a sniper tool. 

Sniper tools were forbidden for a long time by eBay, but they didnt care. Checked German eBay TOS and it seem its not mentioned anymore. Sure, eBay wants the maximum price, but IMO sniper tools are preventing this in some cases. But for German eBay non commercial sales are w/o a fee now, so eBay dont have a benefit form the maximum price, and a lot of commercial sold stuff is sold via instant buy.

28 minutes ago, Farkas said:

If bid is 40 and I’m bidding 100, I put lots of extra bids in, eg 50,62,70, 81 92 then 100…

I don’t know if it really works but I heard it triggers the sniper bids so why not

IMO this dos not work, eBay uses you last bid. 

If bid is 40 and you bid 100 or a couple bids up till 100, the bid will be 41 and in the last second someone might come and get it for 101.

Sniper tools are used for preventing the ping-pong you play at real hall auctions. If you get outbid and still have time (and money) you might bid again in the name of honor, even if you dont wanted to go that high. It can also be a matter of, in how much cases before you got outbid. All this kind of human behavior is prevented when the sniper tool bids in the last second. This kind of human behavior is quiet common imo, therefore hall auctions have no fixed end time.

4 hours ago, Farkas said:

who wouldn’t know the item is dodgey and thinks the price is good?

If something is described as copies (like the last examples in the topic), its hard not to know.

For most fakes, sold as real or the obvious "I dont know if its real" description, it might be the ignorance. 

4 hours ago, Farkas said:

One seller I watched in the past always used the same ‘sock’ accounts to boost the bidding, often cancelling their highest bid if they pushed it up too far.

Common strategy back then, ten years ago. But these days most bidders use sniper tool and bid in the last second so no one can outbid them. This sticks at least to the more searched after genuin stuff, from what I observed in the last years. Guess it also sticks to the fakes.

No MG, but its a MG-Schießplatz. 

These are mostly other collectors, think of Kujau, Klietmann, Blass. Nobody start to selling copys from the scratch, you need to have the knowledge and know how the collector community works. 

They finance their collection with this. Like other people do by selling high and buying low stuff they didnt even collect, when seeing a cheap piece. All of this behavior is bad for the collectors, but you walk between these people at the shows. 

At least the lock looks period.

9 hours ago, bolewts58 said:

So it's odd that whoever is faking these would create something that IMO never existed in history.

But this is nothing new, think of the EK 1 or 2 fantasy cases sold on eBay every week. IMO this was also some kind of cutlery or whatever case. See the lock. There is a imprint and some damages, looks like there was another lock at some point present there. Likely a lock which were looking too new.

Ein bisschen Spaß muss sein....