locked up most of its life

[SCOTT G]

Kay ,another outstanding find Thanks for sharing.

It really goes to show the difference in the then and now approach to the production of these awards. Now it is all about costs and time, back then it was all about the craftsmanship, detail and overall quality.

Items like this make me wonder in a hundred years time just how much of what we make today could be viewed in the same way. Or even how much will still be around with the increasing use of very short lived materials.

This would be a great piece to put under the microscope, most of the extreme detail in this piece can only be microns deep (nothing more than a scratch in the surface of the die/mould ) a true sign of a crafted piece not an industrial one.

[Eric Gaumann]

Your photographic technique is exemplary!
One note; I do prefer straight on shots just for reading and identifying. But after that, just beautiful.

[Montgomery Burns]

sorry being late with this ,,

thanks fore the nice replies ,,,,

this peace got a solid place in my collection ,,,not only fore its beauty ,,
but also fore that etui example ..

this etui date itself without a shred of a doubt ...
providing period evidence to the etui dating of the Iron cross to.

fore all of us this is a nice research object to keep in the back of you're memory's ..

regards kay

[Montgomery Burns]

I also looked deeper in to the coin faking industry ..

beware of any soft detail coin ,,,most of the copy's don't have the sharp detail of the originals....
the soft detail is often used to camouflage the copy ,,to make it look like (plausible) generational ware .
and even cheap coins are regularly copy's without hesitation.

a warning ,,,,its easier to copy and press a iron crosses core and frame then it is to press a fake coin ...

I am out most worried about the copy capability's of coin copiers .

regards kay