Jim R

I sold two crosses to Alexander Povo, 115573, Russia, Moscow, Shipilovskaya st. 50, korpus 3, str.1. I did this before I seen Jamie Cross site were he warned against dealing with this person. Yesterday the same thing happened to me and fortunately the other four he wanted the credit card would not accept the charge. I believe he is using stolen cards to buy with and then the owner cancels the order later. So stay away from him. I am not done with him yet as I will contact some friends in Moscow and see if I can´t make his life a little more challenging. I will also file a claim with Paypal to get my money back.

email address: hlee71037@gmail.com
Name: Alexander Popov

Jim

Made a mistake, the general was the last person to be awards Oak Leaves to his KC.  Also, the unit was NSKK - Speer before it was merged with the Wehrmacht, he still maintained his NSKK rank.

I just received this spange document that was issued on 2 May 45 and signed by the last person awarded the Knights Cross Generalleutnant Joseph von Radowitz.  Jim

Finally with the help of Ben on another forum I have added a long sought after Prinzen Deumer 4 prong spange. I have never seen the case it came in as it looks like a match case. Comments are always welcome. Jim

Agree, nice Deumer.  Jim

When it is too cold outside to do anything I decided to redo my collection. Now every spange has its own label, instead of mutiples over one label. I will work on the rest of the collection later.
EKI spanges second model. Thanks for looking and thanks to all my fellow collectors who helped me put this collection together. Jim

Beautiful bar and I love the history behind the bar. Jim

Yes Juncker first model and looks like the short vein style.  Jim

I bought a stack of documents for Dr Geis who served in WWI and II.  Here are his WWI documents.

Bigger pictures of the cross only front and back would help, very difficult to see details with small pictures.  But it looks like an L/55 (W&L), has the characteristics (low pin and disc).   There are only three makers who didn't mark all their crosses (Meybauer, S&L, and W&L) that I know of.  Jim

EKI cases should either marked 621KB or 2420DB under the insert.  Jim

I was lucky and picked this up from Militaria-Berlin. A matching set cross/case in outstanding condition. It has a Souval frame.

On the ring is stamped "22" which is the code for Boerger & Co who made the cross.  Jim

Forgot to mention but most of the fakes are one piece.  Jim

I have gone through my EKI SBs and I think maybe a Meybauer but not sure.  The disc is trying to say it is a Wiedmann but I have never seen this disc before (maybe fake).  Here is a picture of my Meybauer for comparison.  There are new fakes out there that make it hard to be certain (I don't know the fakes).

Nice selection of crosses.  Jim

Juncker L/12 full vein tombak

Juncker full vein tombac.

Juncker zinc

F. Orth rare spange

I have had really good luck this past month finding some hard to find and rare spanges.

First  is a Juncker buntmetal marked spange

Juncker zinc spange, this is one of a very few known to exist.

F. Orth spange which is rare.

Sorry about being late, seen yesterday and had another look today.  I believe it is a fake, due to the poor pebbling and I can't find a match among mine.  It is trying to be a Deumer.  Jim

I hope this is the right forum for this post.  I received this medal bar which originally had a 1939 spange (fake, I removed).  My question is, is this original pre-1945 or post war?  I have been told on WAF that it was post war, another post said that they thought the police ribbon was post war.  Any help greatly appreciated.  Jim

Thank you Bernhard.  Jim

Who signed the Krim and Kuban documents?  I have tried to search and can't find.  Thanks,  Jim

Thank you for your comments.  Jim