Cased medals information please

[Ron C.]

I am not an Imperial collector, however I have had this set for about 40 years...given me by a local vet. I would like to know about it. It also had 2 EK1s, a screwback and a regular, and a SS honorary or supporting member numbered stick-pin. I still have all of those in separate displays. The name inset in the photo of the cased set is the name printed into the lid fabric. The other insets in the other photos are the hallmarks on the medals. I do not know the gold colored medals with the L in the design, or the medal at the end of the bar. What can you tell me about the set, and the potential value. I cannot access the items not pictured at this time without breaking apart a sealed display.

Thanks,
Ron

[HeikoGrusdat]

Hello,

this is a very beautiful set of a man from LIPPE , small german state, the second cross on the bar is something like the iron cross 2.class of Lippe and the last medal ist the war medal from hungary. The two breast crosses are really fine, these are the war crosses "F******252;r heldenm******252;ge Tat" from Lippe, something like the iron cross first class from Lippe but much more rare!!! Together with minis and chain it is a great set. To give a value for such a complete set is hard and not easy.

a private question... do you want to sell it?

Heiko

[David Müldner]

Well I am not an imperial collector either, so send them to me and the medals wont know the difference

[Ron C.]

Hello,

this is a very beautiful set of a man from LIPPE , small german state, the second cross on the bar is something like the iron cross 2.class of Lippe and the last medal ist the war medal from hungary. The two breast crosses are really fine, these are the war crosses "Für heldenmüge Tat" from Lippe, something like the iron cross first class from Lippe but much more rare!!! Together with minis and chain it is a great set. To give a value for such a complete set is hard and not easy.

a private question... do you want to sell it?

Heiko

Thank you. No I don't want to sell it.....just didn't know much about it. It is one of the few Imperial things that I decided to keep, along with some shoulder scales and straps, and a near mint enlisted feldmuetze.

Ron

[Ron C.]

Well I am not an imperial collector either, so send them to me and the medals wont know the difference

But I would, and I would miss them !

[Solomon]

Hi,

here are some information from a Lippe-Detmold collector:

There were about 740 awards of this "War Honor Cross for Heroic Deeds", by the way "the red baron" also got one

It´s a really nice and very rare set, i´m still searching for such a cross, i only have a document for it.
Congratualtions...

Greetings
Solomon

[Mike Kenny]

Hi Ron,

Re the 1st class Lippe-Detmold KVKs, the pinback is typical wartime issue and the Meybauer screwback is possibly/probably a post-war private purchase example. The crest is the mark for Meybauer and they typically used the cross-shaped plate with the DRGM marked screwdisk on their screwback crosses (regardless of the kingdom/duchie involved). Have been looking to add one of these to my slowly growing Meybauer collection - very nice example

The screwback Wound Badge is also an extremely nice example - the KM mark is also found on very uncommon KMST DRGM Prussian EK1s variants.

The case is also interesting - I didn't even know there was a Louis Werner! Pity we don't know his maker mark.

Regards
Mike

[Ron C.]

Don D. said I should post this set in the Imperial section, and I then remembered that I did some time ago.....but not to try to see if it could be attributed to anyone.

I also said it also had 2 EK1s, a screwback and a regular, and a SS honorary or supporting member numbered stick-pin. I still have all of those in separate displays. The two EK1s are still in a display, which I do not want to tear apart to photograph them closer. They are in the top left side of the frame below, the 2nd and 3rd down in the WW1 EK1 box. They are both vaulted and the 3rd one is a screw back, the 2nd is a pin back.



The next two photos are of the SS Honorary Member stickpin that was in the case, and the screw back EK1 (but only the front since I don't want to risk undoing the set up).





At one time I had the name and address of the vet I got the stuff from, but it and some other records and military things burned in a fire here in 1987, caused by the movers packing things for my move to Germany when I went back as a DAC Attorney-Advisor for the army in Northern Germany. I cannot remember what it was to try to contact him; however, he may be deceased now, or, more likely maybe, wouldn't know anything about who it belonged to.....since either he might have randomly looted it, or traded with another G.I. who did.

I don't know if the SS stickpin would help identify who might have had this set or not.

Thanks,
Ron