EK 1914 Strange 1914 EK1.....

[Motorhead]

After seeing David Gregorys Military merit cross 1st class of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the the "keyback"variation,I would like to show you this EK1.unfortunately the plate is missing! It belongs to the collection of a friend of mine.To the hardware-the EK is the variation with the blued sheet metal core(variation with the silvercontent stamp at the back/the "Silber" stamped ones have sa different crown).I have never seen a good one of these variation(forget the junk from Caarlos and HD Luder/Egliderider at Ebay!) From the pics it looks like the attatchment system was there for ever...what do you think?

Micha

[Motorhead]

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[Motorhead]

last one

[Stogieman]

Micha. very nice. Yet another that doesn't look very comfortable to wear!!

[gregM]

Great Variant. there was one of these with backplate on ebay a few

weeks back. I was going to bid on it but the price very quickly jumped into the

"I don't think so" category.

[Motorhead]

I've seen it,too.....but when I remember right it was from "Caarlos",one of the typical suspects when it comes to

"new variations".But it could have been also "HD Luder" alias "E-Gliderider"-this guys are buying 2nd class EKs and converting them into all these funny screw and pinback ones you can see at Ebay!

Micha

[joe campbell]

micha-

very sorry to hear of these scalawags who are

messing up real items to make fantasy pieces...

have you seen any of these kinds of conversions?

joe

[Motorhead]

Oh yes.....

http://cgi.ebay.de/BESONDERS-SELTENES-GEWO...1QQcmdZViewItem

And have a look at his other auctions-some of them are with good cases....but have a look at the EKs-would you really spend your money for some of them?

Micha

[gregM]

WOW--That is just WRONG.

Unfortunately he is going to fool a lot of people with some of these.

[Biro]

In addition to his 1813 EK1, we see this guy - "E-Gliderider" - offering the age old combination of 9th Bead Fake 1870 EK2, non-serif 25 yr oaks, and Joh Wagner & Sohn WHSpange on a single ribbon.

If ever there was an ensemble to avoid like the plague, this is it folks...

Please don't waste your money on another one of these combo's...

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Edited December 4, 2006 by Biro

[Chris Boonzaier]

Who is the guy doing it?

I sometimes run across him with document auctions...