EK 1914 "We" Ek 2 on medal bar

[Daniel Murphy]

Gentlemen,

I just received this medal bar today from a fine young man in Germany (thanks again C.L.). When I examined the "unmarked" EK 2, I was struck by the sheer quality of the piece and looked closer to see if there was a weak MM. It was not marked on the large ring, but on the small one soldered to the top of the cross, I found the mark "We". The FA Medal is genuine silver and as you can see, the overall condition of the bar and medals is excellent. Here is the bar.

Dan Murphy

Edited December 16, 2005 by Daniel Murphy

[Daniel Murphy]

Here is a close up of the mark. I looked at the list of EK 2 makers and found a "we" as an unknown on the list. This is probably the same mark, but on mine the "w" looks like it supposed to be a capital letter "We" instead of "we". Does anyone else have one of these to compare? Here is the close up of the mm, it is tiny and this is the best I could do.

Dan Murphy

Edited December 16, 2005 by Daniel Murphy

[joe campbell]

dan-

i have same configuration on the eye and will

work on getting a shot of it soon. it certainly

is legit!

joe

[Stogieman]

Hi Daniel, pretty amazing mark on the side of that ?se!

[Mike K]

Hi Daniel,

I don't own an example (yet), but I've seen pics of 1914 EK1s with a definite "We" mark (capital W).

Regards

Mike