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    A Godet '14 Ek1 with 'a little extra'


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    hi, here's something that i haven't looked at for many years; i may not have even posted it on this forum.

    if you were to see this at a show or displayed in a store it would be very easy to overlook the most important features of this particular cross:

    it's in one of those cloth tape, buttonless styles of case

     

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    you know, the type with the blue velvet raised dais--

     

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    take it out, inspect the godet style core, looks like a nicely worn example

     

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    flip it over, and yup! godet

     

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    but then as you are fiddling with it, you notice that in the shifting light there seems to be something else other than the G on the pin, so you look at it real close at just the right angle

      !!!

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    then you look at the back of the pin to look for a control stamp or something up near the hinge, but you notice some faint scratches and you have to REALLY get the angle just right

     

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     to me it reads  "f. richter,  .1.???"

     

    Edited by Eric Stahlhut
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    1 hour ago, Utgardloki said:

    It could be "F. Richter, 1. Klasse", but that's pure speculation 

    it could  be, but in my experience these hand-etched markings done by the owner with whatever sharp object is handy usually denote the unit or the date that the cross was earned. i probably missed the rest

    i'll mess with it some more in hopes of finding and capturing an image of the minute chicken scratches when i get a chance. i have to find a loupe first, as my eyes no longer work so well on macro mode, lol

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    Really nice cross from Godet. I've never seen any Iron Cross stamped with the crown and moon stamp.  I though that was something that jeweler's had stopped using during the First World War with so many crosses being produced and awarded.

     

    chuck 

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    2 hours ago, chuck said:

    Really nice cross from Godet. I've never seen any Iron Cross stamped with the crown and moon stamp.  I though that was something that jeweler's had stopped using during the First World War with so many crosses being produced and awarded.

     

    chuck 

    thanks, chuck

     here's a link to some more crown and moon marked crosses. this time the hallmarks are incused

     i  have not yet identified the maker

     

     

     

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