Deruelle Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Hi everybody, I would like to start a new topic about 2010 acquisitions. Don't hesitate to show your treasure. I hope that this new year will be as good as the last year for our collection. All my ribbon bar with St Henry knight cross Christophe
Deruelle Posted January 2, 2011 Author Posted January 2, 2011 My new medal bar, the Reuß cross is missing and I hope finding it in 2011 Christophe
rujab Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Hi Chrisophe Oh my God That is marvelous, I love the cases. I hope which you 2011 exactly as much luck have Regards Rudi
Poulton Palmer Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Hello Christophe, Good idea for a topic. I shall post my new 2010 stuff also in a few days. Nice collection of boxes, but for me the medal bar is the most interesting, very nice!!! I hope you will find the missing Reuß medal soon. Greetings from Flanders, Stephan
Poulton Palmer Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Here are a the most important German WWI spanges I have bought lately.
Poulton Palmer Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 And here a few more things: The two campaign crosses I like especially, they are not so common, they have another form than the ones you see more often. On the little miniaturechain, you can see them as well, in the same form. They come from the same grouping. unfortunately I didn't got the White Falcon. Maybe I will find one somewhere else in 2011. If someone wants to sell his, please let me know!!! The two crosses were Spangenstücke. The fool who has cut this Spange into pieces should be courtmartialed and shot instantly!! The big spange misses two medals, can someone help me by telling what the missing medals probably would be? Poulton
VtwinVince Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Could we see closeups of the Prussian medal bar and the Austrian one? I have my doubts about the latter.
dond Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 I'm pretty sure that one came from the Austrian faker.
saschaw Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 (edited) Poulton, sorry for the bad news. The Austrian medal bar is fake, as yet is said, and the upper and the lower ribbon bars are fakes, to. The Prussian medal bar is great! Edited January 8, 2011 by saschaw
Poulton Palmer Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Good evening gents, thanks for your replies. Bad news however. The 2 ribbon bars: I had a bad feeling about them already. That from the bar is worse, but I will get over it. Greetings from Bruges, Poulton.
VtwinVince Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 (edited) Yes, our Austrian faker is very busy these days. Could you post some scans of the nice Prussian bar with NC EK2? Edited January 8, 2011 by VtwinVince
Paul R Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Poulton. I am sorry about the bad news. You still have a few nice items there though! I love the commemorative crosses.
saschaw Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Argh... the third ribbon bar is as bad. I could remember the source of the two others, and that's a very bad source, but I didn't remember the third came from the very same guy. I have hardly ever seen one real ribbon bar or medal bar that was offered by this person... Beware of those! :shame:
Poulton Palmer Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Dear gents, thanks for your input. This stimulates my thought that I should misten more to my "guts-feeling": about the ribbons I didn't have a 100% good feeling: for example, there are two württemberg ribbons next to each other on the third ribbon, these ribbons differ in colour and wear (how stupid off me!!). And the austrian bar: the back: I thought it was a strangely looking pin and the backing itself was looking too new etc. The medals on the bar are original though, maybe with exception from the Silezian Adler. I don't know where too look at though. It is made from a very light metal. I should better buy things I know a little bit better. Bigger problem is: what do I do with these things? I think I let them stay in the collection and keep them together as fakes. I will not bring them back in circulation because I will not sell other collecors a fake. Luckily the amounts were not too high, so I will get over it. Poulton
saschaw Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 The medals on the bar are original though, maybe with exception from the Silezian Adler. I don't know where too look at though. It is made from a very light metal. Don't agree in this: I think more, maybe most, of the awards on this bar, are fakes. The big Austrian medals, the Oldenburg cross probably are... the Silesian eagle of course as well. Bigger problem is: what do I do with these things? I think I let them stay in the collection and keep them together as fakes. I will not bring them back in circulation because I will not sell other collecors a fake. That's just fine. I'm as well keeping all fake bars in a box... :ninja:
VtwinVince Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 If the medals are real, you can always disassemble the fake bars and use the medals for something else.
Poulton Palmer Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Don't agree in this: I think more, maybe most, of the awards on this bar, are fakes. The big Austrian medals, the Oldenburg cross probably are... the Silesian eagle of course as well. I do think the most are real ones. I will double check this off course !! I follow your example: bad ones in a box and Vtwin's advice also, maybe I can use the good ones for other purposes. Thanks for your replies, Poulton
dond Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Here is an example I got from this faker a couple of years ago. I thought his dark pics were the result of poor camera skills. My bad. Not one medal on it is good. Note the typical construction for this guy. He also used this maker label a lot.
VtwinVince Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 It's incredible that they are faking such common awards as the Hungarian WW1 medal. Thanks for posting this one, Don, typical work from this guy.
dond Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 That is part of what makes this scam work. Who would think anyone would fake such common stuff.....
Poulton Palmer Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 VtwinVince and Dond, Thanks for your knowledge and picture of a Spange from the faker. It is indeed strange that he fakes very common medals, but he gets away with it!! I hope some medal collectors will learn from these posts!! Greetings, Poulton!
M Hunter Posted January 12, 2011 Posted January 12, 2011 (edited) Here is my best 2010 purchase. The medal grouping of Major Richard Nesselhauf (Identified by Daniel Krause ) Nesselhauf was Hauptmann in Prussian IR 18, and Adjutant of the Prussian Training Mission for the Polish Army. Best wishes Matt Edited January 12, 2011 by M Hunter
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