Collectors and friends of the forum,
It has been nice to see that the imperial section has had a lot of activity lately, and I find it great and would like to make a contribution that it would remain active and experience the sharing and discussions of items in the collections.
It's not very often I make threads where I show items I have, so I thought I'll begin to share them more frequently to the public, to keep the Imperial forum active with a nice presentation of course
Here's an Iron Cross 1.Class I picked up a few months ago from the 44th Künker eLive auction.
Somehow I instantly fell in love with the appearance of this cross.
The repair on the catch, the early cracked (just up of the W) cast iron B14 core, the very beautiful engraving, the worn frame and the dark patina of the S-W marked Cross gave me the feel of a real "Frontkämpfer" EK1.
I can honestly say that this EK1 is "the EK1" of my collection despite it's damages (which in my eyes makes it better).
For the ones interested in the History, the engraving is Narew Juli 1915, (place and date) R.v.H. (the initials).
The Narew-Offensive was an offensive launched by the German army on the eastern front in July 1915 and resulted in a German Breakthrough. The German Army managed to cross the river of Narew (Poland). A piece of history from the lesser written front during World War 1.
I would appreciate comments and further discussion!
It has been nice to see that the imperial section has had a lot of activity lately, and I find it great and would like to make a contribution that it would remain active and experience the sharing and discussions of items in the collections.
It's not very often I make threads where I show items I have, so I thought I'll begin to share them more frequently to the public, to keep the Imperial forum active with a nice presentation of course
Here's an Iron Cross 1.Class I picked up a few months ago from the 44th Künker eLive auction.
Somehow I instantly fell in love with the appearance of this cross.
The repair on the catch, the early cracked (just up of the W) cast iron B14 core, the very beautiful engraving, the worn frame and the dark patina of the S-W marked Cross gave me the feel of a real "Frontkämpfer" EK1.
I can honestly say that this EK1 is "the EK1" of my collection despite it's damages (which in my eyes makes it better).
For the ones interested in the History, the engraving is Narew Juli 1915, (place and date) R.v.H. (the initials).
The Narew-Offensive was an offensive launched by the German army on the eastern front in July 1915 and resulted in a German Breakthrough. The German Army managed to cross the river of Narew (Poland). A piece of history from the lesser written front during World War 1.
I would appreciate comments and further discussion!
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