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Wonderful collection!!!!

No Martin,that would be the wet finger work. I got his name from a German book with the picture from the crew. taucher

Martin, The guy who send the card. Oberheizer Schuschke standing in the backrow. The fourth guy from the left.

For those who wonder its a WuS cross. Thanks Rick and Dave.

1 WuS 1 KM

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Hey guys, Today i was given a little treasure. It comes from a lady from witch the husband past away recently. A iron cross 2 in the original box in witch it was send to him.In the box a presse papier and the original papers for the cross.

Martin, His unckels name is R. Schuschke and its looks like he is a maschinist. A maschinist is a ships engineer or a stoker. He lives in Thorn,gerstenstrasse 9a If you are lucky,this is his fathers brother so the name would be the same. If not it is his mothers brother so you are in for a search. Thorn is a fortress town in Germany, in the Prussian province of West Prussia. taucher

Martin, It looks like you picked a "gem" your card is written by a crewmember of U9.It is written in the port of Wilhelmshaven Germany. He is writting to his unkel after returning from campaign. He writes "Dear unkel" "we are back after a succesfully trip during witch we have sunk "HAWKE"" The rest is a bitt of talk about the family,he thanks his unkel for something and sends his greetings to al of the family HMS Hawke was sunk by U9 on 15 october 1914 in the northsea. Her captain was Hugh Williams. Your card is stamped 3 november 1914,thats a little month after the sinking. On 20 september 1911 Hawke had a collision with RMS olympic. To answer your question about recieving the iron cross. The crew recieved their iron cross after the very succesful campaign in witch the U9 sunk 3 warships. Crew of U boots where seen as heroes in those years so it was not uncommon that the whole crew recieved the iron cross. So Martin you can spend your time for research after the crewmember. taucher

Translation Our heroes The crew of the submarine U9 white the iron cross and their commanders captain weddigen I will try to give translation of the back of card later. taucher

The next picture Thanks to al for helping me thanks taucher

one cross i have my eye on. Any comments bad or good are welcome. see next picture

Thanks Joe. The asking price for the second cross is about 200 dollars. Would that be a fair price and for this price could i do better? I would pay more for a cross if i knew it whas wearth it. on what bases do you say they are the real thing Joe? Have you ever heard of a one piece cross because he is also selling one. Sorry for the many questions and sorry for the Englisch. Thanks again guys taucher

What about this one? How do you see the first one is real? Thanks taucher

Hello, could you guys give your opinion about this one? Why is the tip of the needle blue? What would be market price? thanks taucher

Hello guys, I'm looking to by a iron cross 1 clas, but can't see the wood true the trees anymore. What have i have to look fore in a real one?Are they also 3 piece made like EK2? Do they have to be magnetic?Do you guys have some reference on where to buy? thanks taucher

Hello, I need help for this spange Is it ok? Maker marked KM Thanks