Eric Stahlhut

worn

another lefty

oversize ek2

Magyar text

Absolutely wonderful set!!!

Hey, battery acid or beer pee works! And some Fererro Rocher foil for effect. Yup! Just make sure you use the right side.

Seriously, this could develop into an interesting thread. But not official, hein?

mini

Here you are! 925 in pin and AWS mark in center of ray back

That is a VERY weird attachment system! Presumably the "propellor blades" were inserted into double wide clothing loops, and then the cross itself was slid into the center and turned

BUT

if anything bumped the cross and it rotated... it would fall off all by itself!

One would think so, but the "propeller blade" has quite a bit of tension when on the cross and it DOES take some effort to detach it. Very firm, but yeah--if this cross got snagged on something you could lose the cross--same thing goes for a regular pinback tho.

The icing on the cake was to find the patent mark on the catch!

Thanks bro! 1st piece I've seen in a few years that I didn't already have or have seen. Definitely belongs in the variant category, no?

I'm interested to see what people will say about it. As soon as I can figure out how to resize pics to 65K I should be able to edit and provide better pics os the solder on the catch, etc. but it looks pretty darn period to me.

and there you go. have at it!

the catch is marked geschutzt and perhaps some smaller hallmarks below

the propeller-shaped clasp is a single piece of silver that rotates clockwise and unsprings from the "catch"

incused 800. looks as if there may be a moon and crown in there as well