Mortyr

IMO period professional jeweler engraving can be authenticated, as certain hand engraving in styles of the time are a lost art today. Personal hand engraving for the most part is a matter of faith, personally if it's in a large group of items from the family I tend to believe it is legit. I have two jeweler engraved crosses a 1939 EK 1 and a 1914, I have no doubt they are period jeweler engraved due to their workmanship & style.

From the site,

a little quote from the criteria..

"The Air Force released in writing Monday the criteria for receiving the Combat Action Medal, the Air Force's equivalent to the Army's Combat Action Badges and Marine Corps and Navy Combat Action Ribbon."

So where others get a badge or a ribbon, the airforce, who are already really the clerks of the whole defence, will get a medal, just to have another jingle jangle going on.

I think that they feel they get too few medals compared to the army or other departments.....

Well, let's say that's another medal we can collect legally as it isn't mentioned in the stolen valor act.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Kind regards,

Jacky

Clerks? Really, tell me more, it seems when I was in Iraq standing at a memorial ceremony for the postumous award of a bronze star to Airman First Class Leebernard Chavez last year from being killed by a sniper he didn't appear to be a "clerk." You need to do your homework before you make such an ignorant comment and save yourself the embarasment.

I'm new to this forum and so far I like what I see, lots super looking crosses and folks having fun. I've been collecting on and off for over 25 yrs. and I've only seen two W.W.2 era EK 1s engraved that I thought were original. What are your thoughts on why we don't see many TR engraved EK1s? Military tradition is hard to kill in just 21 yrs. and I fine it odd we don't see as many nice engraved examples as W.W.1 era.