The Godet Catalogue...
... I owned (Now in Greg M's collection) was a WW2 era catalogue. Showed miniatures, etc. as well as wearing-styles. Cover illustration showed an orders bar with 3 states represented.
In the past I have owned and sold mounted groups with Godet Metal and/or cloth tags on the back of the medal bar. So obviously, the group was mounted by Godet. One of these groups had a Godet EK2 and a Saxon AOR by Scharffenburg and a BMVO by Lesser.
Numerous other groups have come and gone with Godet tags that obviously encompassed awards used by Godet, but made by the individual states.
Again,
I would submit that the cost involved in making a master die to press out blanks for ANY medal and or order/decoration would be prohibitively high. Multiple discussions regarding dies, manufacturing techniques of the same and the use of dies in creating medals can be found in the Badges forum. They do not need to be rehashed here.
How many PLM's would your maker have to sell to justify the investment of creating their own, unique dies?
How come in NO published references (extensive and another in the works by Steven Previtera) does this maker ever come up as being an authorized maker of this order?
Are we to believe that with the fall of the monarchy, any old Tom, Dick or Harry with money to burn (in 1920/30's Germany????) could tool-up to make an award that less than 100 were awarded 1914-1918??
C'mon, the simple picture in a manufacturer's catalogue tells me they SOLD the piece. It's a SALES catalogue.
It makes no sense whatsoever to me that this previously unknown maker would arbitrarily decide to spend 1000's of RM to create a dye for an award that they might sell how many?? 50?? I submit that even that number would be stretching it.
I'm sorry, but your excitement over the find should be real. It's incredibly intrigueing and a very interesting tidbit.
But I cannot accept that in the face of logic regarding the cost, methods and demand for this award in Germany, in 1939/1940, that this would mean anything other than the fact that they could sell the piece.
What other awards are found in the catalogue? bavarian? Saxon? Baden? Württemburg?
... I owned (Now in Greg M's collection) was a WW2 era catalogue. Showed miniatures, etc. as well as wearing-styles. Cover illustration showed an orders bar with 3 states represented.
In the past I have owned and sold mounted groups with Godet Metal and/or cloth tags on the back of the medal bar. So obviously, the group was mounted by Godet. One of these groups had a Godet EK2 and a Saxon AOR by Scharffenburg and a BMVO by Lesser.
Numerous other groups have come and gone with Godet tags that obviously encompassed awards used by Godet, but made by the individual states.
Again,
I would submit that the cost involved in making a master die to press out blanks for ANY medal and or order/decoration would be prohibitively high. Multiple discussions regarding dies, manufacturing techniques of the same and the use of dies in creating medals can be found in the Badges forum. They do not need to be rehashed here.
How many PLM's would your maker have to sell to justify the investment of creating their own, unique dies?
How come in NO published references (extensive and another in the works by Steven Previtera) does this maker ever come up as being an authorized maker of this order?
Are we to believe that with the fall of the monarchy, any old Tom, Dick or Harry with money to burn (in 1920/30's Germany????) could tool-up to make an award that less than 100 were awarded 1914-1918??
C'mon, the simple picture in a manufacturer's catalogue tells me they SOLD the piece. It's a SALES catalogue.
It makes no sense whatsoever to me that this previously unknown maker would arbitrarily decide to spend 1000's of RM to create a dye for an award that they might sell how many?? 50?? I submit that even that number would be stretching it.
I'm sorry, but your excitement over the find should be real. It's incredibly intrigueing and a very interesting tidbit.
But I cannot accept that in the face of logic regarding the cost, methods and demand for this award in Germany, in 1939/1940, that this would mean anything other than the fact that they could sell the piece.
What other awards are found in the catalogue? bavarian? Saxon? Baden? Württemburg?
) made medal bars with existing already awarded decorations the recipient walked in with. Nobody went and bought duplicates of every medal on a medal bar every time they added an award and then threw the entire old one away. 
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