Von Krauthausen

Belgian Croix de Feu -vuurkruis

Hauptman , your fourrage is for the ww1 croix de guerre , but US made ..so meant for a US unit awarded the rights to wear it . .A fourragere no one mentioned here yet is the one for the belgian 'vuurkruis' or croix de feu .. two tassels and red coloured . French army the only one AFAIK that combined fourrageres ..theres plenty of examples to be found on google of combined versions .. In general Belgian fourrageres (or nestels) have two tassels , french are single tasseled ..only combined ones are doubled. The dutch orange cord , red cord and the invasion cord dont have tassels attached at all because those arent related to a medal ,just a honorary title . regards Henk

Amazed no one here even mentions it might very well be 'a kind of' the real thing after all . The way that eye on the ek2 is bent is very specificallly done .. Its not the first EK2 Ive seen bent like that ,the others were all eastern frontmade temporary RK substitutions , the real thing !! (Or someone has bent it exactly alike wich is offcourse always a possibilility , but nowadays people arent that eager to ruin a perfectly good ek2 anymore for a RK most collectors havent even heard of ..) Knowing its a 'real' ek2 and looking at the ribbon wich looks very nice too I think you missed out on a real little gem due to very ignorant advices . If it wasnt too expensive would have scored it for shure :-)