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    EK II core hollow stamped, maybe a 1914 piece??

    Dear fellow collectors,


    a while ago I´ve bought this, in my eyes, very interesting core.


    I have here only 50% of the core I think, in my opinion it must be the back of a 1914 IC II. class, interesting for me is the hollow stamping technology in this time, I have never expected such a technic in this time frame, if it is from this time frame.


    Let me hear your opinions abou this piece, Thanks


    Matt
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    More then 60 clicks and no reply?


    Matt

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      #3
      It's a neat looking piece. I don't know what to say about the hollow
      stamped back. I've never seen one before but we seldom see just
      a core piece posted. I have nothing to compare it against.

      I'm sure that's why so few replies.--- no one knows.

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        Greg,



        Yes thats true, that does not really often happen to see a single piece of a core.


        As far as I know the die stamping process started in the late 1914 because of the still increasing number of needed awards, it was expected that the war will end latest until christmas, which does not happen, therefor the number of the fallen soldiers and also the number of the needed awards was increased, the used casting for eac hsingle iron cross process takes too much time and resources, the whole process needs to become a industrial process, this is the reason for the die stamp process, which increases the number of the produced crosses a lot.


        When I am right, this is also the reason that the early war time iron crosses are all casted pieces.


        But I´m with you, it was completely new for me that the core of an iron cross second class was made out of two pieces.


        Matt

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          #5
          Interesting find/discovery. I never had a broken WW1 EK2 to examine, I do from WW2 but its a solid core. Thank you for sharing. TPK

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