A study of Eks- Otto Schickle

[gregM]

Lets put together a reference thread for Otto Schickle cross variations.
Please post your Schickle crosses here. (Please only Schickle crosses)

[streptile]

Great idea Greg.

I have a few in my files, and one in my collection. I will post the photos as I find them.

Here's what I know (or believe) about Schickle's EK production:

The earliest Schickle EKs I know are these one-piece productions (of which you show two). The first, which I think date from between the wars (maybe 1920s) have the more classical looking serif dates:

[streptile]

Here's an EK1 with the earlier "serif date" and some typical Schickle hardware:

[streptile]

These "serif date" examples were made in both classes and with a variety of hardware. Later -- I would say after WWII started, but this is a guess -- they switched the style of "core" slightly. The dates became more modern and streamlined. Let's call this the "modern" date, because it obviously takes its design cues from modern art, like Art Nouveau:

[streptile]

Simultaneously with this type, they made one-piece Schinkels:

[streptile]

Eventually Schickle was reprimanded for the low quality of their EKs, and had to re-tool to make three-piece EKs. I guess this was sometime in the first third of WWII. So they made the traditional 1939 EKs we now know as Schickles, as well as some with 1914 cores.

An EK2:

[streptile]

I guess we could call these three-piece WWII-era Schickles the "LDO type." Here's a very nice screwback EK1 by Schickle, of the so-called "LDO type," belonging to Mike Kenney:

[kriztof]

Great topic Greg about a very understated maker.

I would like to post this Petz & Lorenz as an oddity, I've always felt that somehow there must have been a connection between the two as the cores are very similar..

[gregM]

Thanks Chris.
Maybe you could start a "Study of" thread on P-L crosses.
I think it would help to have a separate thread for them especially
for those of us who keep confusing the two.

[gregM]

I am adding these pictures of a cross posted by Sanya

[gregM]

and these---

[Green]

Otto Schickle EK II

Otto Schickle EK II, one piece non magnetic.

EKII WWI Otto Schickle obverse.jpg

EKII WWI Otto Schickle reverse.jpg

With regards,

Green