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**upbeek** · 09-17-2019, 07:32 AM

Il add this masterpiece one of my favourites!

Kind regards Chay

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**Nigel N** · 09-17-2019, 07:39 AM

That's a beauty Chay!!

A good example of what i'm talking about!!!!
The unmistakable signs of heavy wear give pieces such as this such a great "look" with so much character!!!
-Nigel

**Mustangstje** · 09-17-2019, 07:50 AM

Deumer WB in silver (which I'm currently selling

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**Nigel N** · 09-17-2019, 08:17 AM

Another great piece..thanks Nick!!!
Look at how the Silver finish on the front side has gone......

-Nigel

**Nigel N** · 09-17-2019, 08:21 AM

Heres a well worn Deumer Ostmedaille!!!
The vet who owned this medal, pinned all his medals to his jacket, individually with safety pins, rather than wearing a mounted medalbar.....
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**bytown** · 09-17-2019, 08:23 AM

Original source of this cross indicated that it was vet owned.

No name unfortunately.

Wayne

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**Nigel N** · 09-17-2019, 09:38 AM

Great RK Wayne!!!

That must have attended plenty of re-unions!!!!
Love it!!!!!
-Nigel

**novara** · 09-17-2019, 11:03 AM

This EK1 must have been going through a lot I think...

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**Nigel N** · 09-17-2019, 11:30 AM

That's certainly had a hard life Andrew!!

Might be a combination of things that have resulted in the condition? Poor storage among them perhaps???
Maybe a bar room brawl too!!

-Nigel

**Matthieu** · 09-17-2019, 06:11 PM

These ... attributed to Franz Schmidt !

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**Nigel N** · 09-18-2019, 05:42 AM

Great pieces Mathijs!!!
I still have his EK1 and Medalbar, well worn and nicotine stained!!!
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And remember his Deumer DK, with home-made alterations!!!

-Nigel

**upbeek** · 09-18-2019, 06:03 AM

Originally posted by Nigel N View Post

Great pieces Mathijs!!!
I still have his EK1 and Medalbar, well worn and nicotine stained!!!
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And remember his Deumer DK, with home-made alterations!!!

-Nigel

Great medals Gentlemen,
Nigel a nice medal bar the Germans from that generation like pipe smoking !
And another from me

Kind regards Chay

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**upbeek** · 09-18-2019, 07:22 AM

18 year long service

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**Alex W.** · 09-20-2019, 05:59 PM

An interesting topic and I‘m sure there are a lot of items in my collection that would meet the criteria.
One of the „simpler“ pieces that comes to mind, is a certain EK1. It was part of a small grouping of an austrian soldier. It also came with a cased Stalingrad Madonna pin made of 835 silver.

This EK1 is a very early postwar Souval blank core cross, which actually dates a few years before '57ers were introduced in Germany.
This blank core Souval features a magnetic pin hardware. Ths is the earliest of it's variants, still using entirely Souvals own hardware.

It's also a special piece to me, since it was my first blank core Souval cross.
The veteran must have worn his EK1 proudly in the postwar years due to the signs of wear. At some point repairs were done to the frame and the hinge was probably also resoldered.
The problem with these very early blank core crosses is that Souval used a type of animal glue. Unfortunately the glue is not really strong and the frame parts come apart rather easily.
This must have also been the case with this cross. I think it's fantastic that the veteran decided to repair the cross, instead of just getting a new cross replacement. It adds so much more postwar history to this cross. I‘m sure it was proudly worn on many veteran meetings.
Eventhough there is a small gap between the frame halfs, they stick together very tightly with not part moving or rattleing around.

Best regards,
Alex

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