Stogieman Posted October 7, 2005 Posted October 7, 2005 Hope none of you are bidding on this really crappy fake cross!
joe campbell Posted October 7, 2005 Posted October 7, 2005 what i don't care for is the metal itself and the hinge.are there other things i should be looking at??joe
Stogieman Posted October 7, 2005 Author Posted October 7, 2005 Good start! Color, base metal, hinge, pin and catch are all quite wrong!
Bob Hunter Posted October 8, 2005 Posted October 8, 2005 I like an up close and personal look at a nice one...
JensF. Posted October 9, 2005 Posted October 9, 2005 I think this is one of this "fake group" of 1. Class crosses. You can find the crosses from Oldenburg, Braunschweig and Mecklenburg with exactly the same type of pinback. At the moment they appear quite often at ebay. Here are some examples:http://cgi.ebay.de/Mecklenburg-Orden-1-Kla...1QQcmdZViewItemhttp://cgi.ebay.de/Ernst-August-Kreuz-1914...1QQcmdZViewItemhttp://cgi.ebay.de/Ernst-August-Kreuz-1-Kl...1QQcmdZViewItemhttp://cgi.ebay.de/Friedrich-Kreuz-1-und-2...1QQcmdZViewItemhttp://cgi.ebay.de/FA-Kreuz-1-WK_W0QQitemZ...1QQcmdZViewItem
Stogieman Posted October 11, 2005 Author Posted October 11, 2005 I don't have good photos of the 1. Klasse cross in my archives, anybody else??
joe campbell Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 (edited) i'm hoping this will fill the bill for you, rick!see next.... Edited October 13, 2005 by joe campbell
joe campbell Posted October 13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 (edited) i'm hoping this will fill the bill for you, rick! Edited October 13, 2005 by joe campbell
Guest Rick Research Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 Yikes! An old thread revived from the dim dark pages after almost 3 years!Technically, there is no such thing as a pinback Anhalt Friedrich Cross. Some certainly appeared in the 1920s, but they were never official, never officially awarded, so even old ones are only curiosities.
Eric Stahlhut Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 yes, i'm aware of this fact, brother rick. i was merely curious about the maybauer piece that joe has posted.
Mike K Posted July 18, 2009 Posted July 18, 2009 That's probably good, because the hardware on that last example makes me want to run away - VERY fast!RegardsMike
Ferg1 Posted July 18, 2009 Posted July 18, 2009 I had one until a year ago,I traded with Weitze for a pilot badge.He still has it for all to view,it is in my opinion a 1930's piece and not one of the straight pinned copies that Rick is warning us about. Comparing the two you will notice the much sharper and better detail of the front of medal especially the crown. (Weitze's piece) It is in fact from the same die as the ribboned examples. As an aside, I have seen 1930's catalogues S&L or Deumer ,can't remember , showing the first class as a sale item. Ferg1
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