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    bronze = earlier?

    zink = later?

    Hi Joe,

    Your zink medal is in very nice condition. You are right about the earliest medals being made of bronze and the latest ones being made of zink. There were also bronzed versions made of a replacement metal issued at some time in between the two types.

    All of the ones that I have or have handled seem to have very good details.

    David

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    Here is a ribbon bar of mine. EK2 with the Saxe-Meiningen military merit cross and a Turkish war medal thrown in for good measure. Was there a way to differentiate between the officer and the enlisted versions when on a ribbon bar?

    Dan Murphy

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    Here is my contribution...

    Indeed the war merit cross Lippe-Detmold is a "parallel" award to the EK II ...but there don?t exist different classes :shame:

    The often called "1st class" is the war honor cross for heroic deeds Lippe-Detmold, but there was no need

    to award the war merit cross before!

    The heroic deeds cross maybe comparable with this EK I Prussia...

    Greetings

    Solomon

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    And a look into my family-photos...

    This one shows my great grandfather...he was a sailor in WW I.

    At his ribbon-bar you can see the EK II and at the third position the FA-cross Oldenburg...another parallel award.

    Greetings

    Solomon

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    Yes, but he died, when I was six.

    I have over 120 (very rare) photos from him, when he was a sailor on the "SMS Danzig" and about 20 -30 photos

    when he was in the army in WW II (Infantery -tank hunter).

    With these "Marine-Feldpost"-letters and photos I was able to identify the FA-cross Oldenburg, he awarded in WW I.

    But I?m still searching for the documents of his awards...

    There is no hint on his career on u-boat, exept a few photos which show his Imperial u-boat-award.

    (I have his original award in my collection)

    Greetings

    Solomon

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    Hi all,

    Here's my contribution... Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Friedrich Franz Military Merit Cross 1.kl/2.kl.

    And my original post for anyone interested... I've redone scans as I didn't have my scanner at the time I originally posted these. And I discovered that somehow the part of the post I'd done on the 1.kl had disappeared.

    http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8419...mp;#entry133088

    Dan :cheers:

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    my Christmas present from my beloved mentor....

    the Hesse Krieger-Ehrenzeichen in Eisen...

    i am trying to wade through my Nimmergut to

    understand the "25" at the bottom of the wreath.

    obverse.

    joe

    Here are a few examples, sort of a typology, derived from some WAF discussions a few years back: http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/KEZ_in_Eisen.htm

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