Help ID maker EKII 1914

[vellocino]

Hello, asking your kind help IDing the maker of this EKII, I just received.
Has a strange mark similar to a 9 or 6, too rigid to believe it is a G.
I am pretty sure some of you guys will be able to ID it.
Thanks a lot in advance and choose to have a great day!
Vellocino

[vellocino]

Marked ring

[vellocino]

Has anyone seen such a mark before or bad striked mark on ring?
I am not very well versed on EKIIs so I have to rely on your opinions.
Thanks again.
Vellocino

[gregM]

It must be a mis-strike. It is certainly not a mark
I have seen before.

[vellocino]

Thank you Greg, can you ID cross maker based on core?
Thank you all,
Vellocino

[Exile]

Hi Vellocino

It looks like a bad strike of maker 'R' to me.

Compare the mark to this thread:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=590302







The core appears to be quite different so I am very curious to know if your cross has the extra mark on the jump ring.


Matt

[vellocino]

Markings on jumpring, Thx

There are some ancillary marks at the base of the jumpring, looking like T with some imagination, and a second line above the T, but this could be my eyes tricking me into see a T, here it is a picture that I hope can show this. But certainly the mis-striked mark on the ring looks like the R mark on your threading EKII.
I sincerely appreciate your input and hope this will attracts more opinions from others knowledgeable fellow members.
Thanks again,
Vellocino

[SCOTT G]

Greetings Vellocino,
From the photos it looks like it's an "R " cross with a backwards "R" marking IMO. Check it against the Rs it the data base.
Regards,
Scott

[vellocino]

Thanks, Matt, Greg and Scott, it seem plausible, now to verify this by checking cores in the database.
Thanks again to all of you for your time and opinions.
Have a good week!

Vellocino

[Exile]

Thanks, Matt, Greg and Scott, it seem plausible, now to verify this by checking cores in the database.
Thanks again to all of you for your time and opinions.
Have a good week!

Vellocino

Just keep in mind there may be more than one core used by the maker.

If you do find a match to the core (and you will) then post back here with your findings.

Matt

[streptile]

Only checking frames can really help you find this maker.

This (and almost every 1914) core was used by many makers, including Z, G, ED, KAG, N, S-W, We, JHW, WILM. There are without doubt others; these are only the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Some EKs are not really attributable without a lot of hard eye-work on the frame, and even then we really don't know. If makers swapped cores so much, why not frames, too?

All that said, I would start to compare the frame to R as Scott and others suggested.