Show your A14 variation Iron Crosses

[Dansson]

Just purchased off ebay.
A14 cross on a single medal bar. The ribbon looks good, Im just not sure
if the cross and the bar belong together.

That Greg is a beauty
Congratulations!
We can never know with that type of bar, but does it matter in the end?

[gregM]

That Greg is a beauty
Congratulations!
We can never know with that type of bar, but does it matter in the end?

Thanks Daniel,--- No, it probably doesn't matter. The cross has a small
ring which in my mind says that it was meant to go on a bar.
I'm happy with it for now.

[ddbinks]

Nice cross Greg! Welcome to the A14 club

[gregM]

Nice cross Greg! Welcome to the A14 club

Thanks

[Green]

Just purchased off ebay.
A14 cross on a single medal bar. The ribbon looks good, Im just not sure
if the cross and the bar belong together.

The bar is IMO at least wartime. IMO single medal bars with the EK II 1914 are almost always wartime period. The recipient often received later a State medal or an other memory medal. In wartime the soldier was very proud on his Iron Cross and occasionally wore it as a single medalbar on his uniform.

Very nice A 14 and medalbar

[gregM]

Thank you.
That makes sense.

[norwest]

Here is my A14. But there are some oddities about it:

1. The beading looks 1939-style
2. The arms of the cross do not widen out as much as either the 1914 or 1939 examples (the last was edited to show this more clearly)
3. The ring is marked '9' (I usually read from the inside of the ring perspective, but I know this isn't always the case), and perhaps also has a mis-struck '800' mark

I'd love to hear thoughts on this one. I am not nearly as deep into the EK's as most of you are.

Regards,
Kevin