Meister,
thanks for your reply. Regarding the dealer it's vice versa - he sells good items but sometimes a bad one. I got it from Michel Juergen (michelju on eBay).
I heard a lot of good and few bad about him, unfortunately it seems that I will be in the group which says the bad
BTW didn't you find my comparison with the WikiPedia cross interesting? Strange that both crosses have same flaws.
...one more thing..my cross appears to be a zinker, definitely not bronze or iron. But as I mentioned already, only source of info that I have is Wikipedia and the data in there does not necessarily be 100% true.