Richard Gordon

Thanks Greg!

Rich

L/57

The classic S&L!

Meybauer

L/19

L15: Orth or??

Zimmermann '20'

K&Q

W&L

F & B

Deumer!

OK a little tarnished

1

All,

Could I pick your brains? A work colleague's wife is the granddaughter of a 4 Gebirgsj?ger Division veteran who has since passed away. She is currently devoted to finding out as much about the 4 Gebirgsj?ger as possible.

Could any one recommend reference material on this division that is best for historical and pictural content? (She speaks both German and English.)

I believe she has this book "Enzian und Edelweiss Die 4. Gebirgs-Division 1940 - 1945" by Julius Braun but has found it too technical. I have conducted some internet research and see there is another author who seems to specialise in Gebirgs Division - Roland Kaltenegger. Would you recommend any of his works? Are there any other books that would be recommended?

I found a few websites but there's not a huge amount of detailed information:

http://www.gebirgsjaeger.4mg.com/4gebdiv.htm

http://www.feldgrau.com/4hg.html

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=1047

Thanks

Richard

I post this interesting photo of this highly decorated pilot. I would love to know who it is. Does anyone know?

Rich

Nice EK2s! Unfortunately I don't have a L/56 to add to the thread.

Rich

Without a close-up of the mark it's impossible to tell as what I can see on the screen is simply too small. I'm thinking it's not a maker mark at all just a random mark on the pin.

Rich

Naoki,

It looks to be a nice used but not abused DKiG. Nice to see the enamel is not damaged.

Here's mine. It hasn't seen much action. Perhaps only used on home leave or maybe posthumous.

Rich

Eric

I'm very impressed with the results on the core. What did you use?

Rich

Hmmm, certainly looks like one from the blued-core, pumpkin-crown maker.

I do believe you are correct!

My thoughts too - the actual maker still being unknown.

Interesting hardware variation.

Rich, this one looks to be almost flat? All the other ones I have seen/own are slightly to moderately vaulted, so another interesting variation!

Regards

Mike

Mike, it does look flat but in fact is convex but only slightly.

Thanks gents!

Rich

Last pic.

Anyone recognise this maker?

Rich

The reverse is fairly plain marked only for silver content.

The catch is quite thick, the pin is flat-bottom but curved on the exterior side. The hinge is interesting as it sits raised on a slim block.

I wonder if you guys and gals can identify the maker of this one?

It looks to have has a blued core (I can't see a trace of paint anywhere) with an interesting crown and high date.

Lovely example. Enjoy it.

Best wishes

Demir

Thanks!

Meybauer made ones aren't common. With three in your collection, I can imagine you'll want a Godet example, and even rarer ones? It's hard to stop with one or two nice ones, and three could be tempting to build into a larger mini-collection all of it's own....

Nice ones.

Les

Les,

you hit the nail on the head! My first was the BB&Co, then the '800' Austrian example. I've seen Godet's, AWS and JH Werner examples up for sale which I would love to add but they are oh, so expensive! I'm always on the look-out for nice pin-backs.

Another little obsession.

Rich

Cheers Eric!

Rich