I've had a 40s imperial deumer sitting around for a while with a slight ding in the crown, the ding was reddish and exposed the core so I had always figured it was just slight rusting. Here are a few photos...
The color is really very difficult to capture in a picture, there is a link at the bottom to another post that shows better pics.
From a bit of reading I've found that deumer may have used an acid bath or simple plate of copper or nickel over a cross core to prevent rust, do you guys think this cross has that plate? It is not simple rust imo, more brownish than... Well rust.
Here's a '14 ek2 (looks like a deumer) that was made with odd materials, namely tombak. Has this been a deumer tradition since the guns fell silent in 1918?
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ight=Copper+EK
Here's an old post, like 2011 old, the User "AUSGANG" shows a 1939 denazified L/11 cross with a copper(?) plated core. Showing this practice continued well into the Second World War.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ght=Copper+ek2
Here's where we originally discussed this cross, Kay noted the possibility of a brass core, I neglected to mention the core is highly magnetic, despite this I didn't want to be a grave digger and revive a year old thread. The best pics can be found here!
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=807195
Does anyone know more about Deumer's uses of coated cores? Or perhaps when they began to use them, when they stopped etc. perhaps which variants used these cores?
Thanks for any opinions!
Bertolt Brecht,
The color is really very difficult to capture in a picture, there is a link at the bottom to another post that shows better pics.
From a bit of reading I've found that deumer may have used an acid bath or simple plate of copper or nickel over a cross core to prevent rust, do you guys think this cross has that plate? It is not simple rust imo, more brownish than... Well rust.
Here's a '14 ek2 (looks like a deumer) that was made with odd materials, namely tombak. Has this been a deumer tradition since the guns fell silent in 1918?
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ight=Copper+EK
Here's an old post, like 2011 old, the User "AUSGANG" shows a 1939 denazified L/11 cross with a copper(?) plated core. Showing this practice continued well into the Second World War.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ght=Copper+ek2
Here's where we originally discussed this cross, Kay noted the possibility of a brass core, I neglected to mention the core is highly magnetic, despite this I didn't want to be a grave digger and revive a year old thread. The best pics can be found here!
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=807195
Does anyone know more about Deumer's uses of coated cores? Or perhaps when they began to use them, when they stopped etc. perhaps which variants used these cores?
Thanks for any opinions!
Bertolt Brecht,