Knight's cross with diamonds

[Dwight]

Enclosed are pictures of a post war set of a knight's cross with diamonds. I believe this is a S&L cross with a C-frame ("dipping ring" and weak dent row flaw). The core is non-magnetic and there is an incused "800" mark under the ring.

The diamonds are IMHO very well made but there are no stones in the sword hilt. There are no markings and the overall height is 35mm by 30mm in total width. The numbers of stones are 51. This set match very much the "Diamonds Display Set" pictured in Stephen Previtera's book "The Iron Time" (second edition 2007) on page 447.

Any comments/corrections would be very much appreciated!
Question: Is it possible to say when this post war set approximately was made?

[Dwight]

Knight's cross with diamonds

Some more pictures.

[Tom B]

The OS&D's are of course a post war made set. I have a Klein marked set made in the 80's I believe. Tom

[Tony T-S]

A nice RK too. I wonder why the maker left the diamonds off the swords.

[Dwight]

Knight's cross with diamonds

Thanks for the comments! As Tom points out, the diamonds are post war. Two more pictures of the diamonds.

[Tom B]

There is VERY MUCH info on these diamonds in the crosses section of the forum. If you post them up there you'll get more info than you can stand ! Tom

[Leroy]

Tom - I hope you will show us your set! If you need, you can send photos to me and I'll be glad to post them for you. Always good to see what's out there.

[Dwight]

Knight's cross with diamonds

Some more pictures of the cross.

[Dwight]

Knight's cross with diamonds

More pictures of the cross.

[Dwight]

Knight's cross with diamonds

Last picture of the cross.

[Leroy]

A very nice "C" frame cross, well-finished and with good paint on a core that's wearing out. I'm guessing early 70's. A great display set!

[Dwight]

Knight's cross with diamonds

Thanks for all comments. Much appreciated!