Bundesrepublik 57 Awards

[Laurence Strong]

Here are the 57 medals that I have collected to date.

1st is an RK w/ Oaks and Swords bought off of a member on this forum. It's a 2nd version with a post war S&L frame, the case was a "Throw in" and is not original to the medal

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Here's the cross, it weighs in at 28.5g the suspention ring is only 1mm in spots.

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I see I have some rust starting, the rev

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Edge on shot

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A view of the Silver mark, you can still see traces of the frosting in the base of the ribbing

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A composite of the Oaks and Swords, the brown on the rev is from my scanner

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A well used RK des KvK without Swords, again from a froum member

I have it laying on a repro ribbon

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The obverse of the medal, it's quite heavy weighing in at 38.6g and measures out at 52mm wide and7mm thick

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The rev. I toyed with the idea of cleaning it but in the end I decided to leave it like it is.

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Edge on view showing the thickness.

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What I believe to be an early issue KvK1 w/o Swords, a nice job done on the stippling.

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The reverse, it has a very finely built pin/hinge and catch

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A pair of KvK2 with swords, you will notice the 1 on the left has the suspension ring hanger installed in an odd fashion

Double post sorry

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[Laurence Strong]

A pair of KvK2 with swords, you will notice the 1 on the has the suspension ring hanger installed in an odd fashion.

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[Laurence Strong]

The rev, I believe the one without ribbon to be a later issue as it is slightly smaller and the workmanship and quality are just not there. Thats all I have at this time though I intend to add to this eventually. Thanks for looking and all comments and opinions are welcome.

[Grant Broadhurst]

Hi Laurence ,

Thanks for showing your 1957,s !

The RK is a nice second type with good quality it must have been one of the first of these using the second type of core before the quality nose dived .

The KvK2,s you show are a good example of early and late piece,s the quality of the early one screams out to you where the later one looks like a tramp , yes they did mount the ring wrongly on the later one,s why i don't know .

Cheers

Grant