Record breaking Ek1?

[Mike Kenny]

I am in agreement with Saschaw here about the period of construction - my own feeling is that the KMSTs are wartime and that the hardware variations are relatively early "experimentations". I also like his point about the "K" in KMST - it makes a lot of sense.

Re the final price of this example, I think the seller listed the right cross at the right time and several bidders got into a bidding war. Nice to know there is still a market for high end Imperial EK1s!

Regards
Mike

[streptile]

I believe them to be war time.

I agree.

[Montgomery Burns]

well ...as in the 30'"s militarism, the uniform was becoming part off the public and street life again..

ek"s wood be there to ,,,
but in a world off new inventions,crazy futuristic views off the future off Germany
and new method's ,army reorganization and building off brand new units with unseen demands
these crosses are to me an attempt to go along with this new futuristic modernism.

and are also ( in a sense) war time in the end

[VtwinVince]

Rare variant to be sure, but still an insane price

[Montgomery Burns]

I believe them to be war time, as the "K." stands for Königlich, which would be obsolete in 1919.



Are you sure? I'm sure they are all die-struck at K.M.ST. By what reason should a mint cast cores?

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I have bin looking troe some books and found that KMST is still not identified to a maker ,,,
in fact it is still an un identified maker ..

maybe some documents came up lately ,,but not to what i know now ...

kay

[Christian J]

Seems it now resides in chinook21831:s collection, a Doctor from Hamburg I believe?

[Christian J]

Seems it now resides in chinook21831:s collection, a Doctor from Hamburg I believe?

The reason I mentioned this was because: I think we had some discussion on GMIC some years back on another KMST that he bought. He must have an mesmerizing collection. Maybe someone know if he is active on one of the German forums?

[saschaw]

Not that I'd be aware of.

[Montgomery Burns]

and you cant win from him












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[Don D.]

That just means he wants it more than you.

[Mike Kenny]

I have bin looking troe some books and found that KMST is still not identified to a maker ,,,
in fact it is still an un identified maker ..

maybe some documents came up lately ,,but not to what i know now ...

kay[/quote]

There is a thread somewhere on GMIC where a cased Wurttemburg pinback cross (sorry, I forget it's title) linked the hardware to the maker.

Regards
Mike

[Montgomery Burns]

I found on ebay interesting KMST's

http://cgi.ebay.de/alter-antiker-Chr...item255fd0141d








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