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Originally posted by Mike H View PostPlease explain what you mean by "Long M".
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Below is a Short-M variantAttached Files
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Just up to until recently (to be exact 2 months ago) there were no period pictures known to anyone that would show the "Long-M" variant shield in wear. That is why some collectors (and to be honest, including me sometimes) were "not 100% sure" about this variant. To be absolutely confident in it - we wanted to see the Long-M shield "In Wear" in a period/pre-1945 picture. The problem was that there are not so many pictures of Cholm wearers- not many were awarded. And even if you were lucky to find a picture with a Cholm shield in wear, due to the low resolution and size of images, it was always impossible to see if it is the "Long-M" or "Short-M" variant.
..untill recently..
Our member Pitomnik (Roman) did a really great job searching hard for it. Long story short, he was able to find the High-Resolution scan of the picture (shown below) in which you can clearly see the "Long-M" in wear. Please notice that this HJ portrait picture has been well known for a long time and was published in many reference books before (including Angolia books) but never in High-Resolution and the shield details could not be seen before.
Thanks Roman for it!
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As you can see, I did my "home work" before posting here, researched and studied the Cholm shield in depth from all possible sources for a long time. This award is rare, especially Long-M, and many and even advanced collectors simply do not have enough information on it. I remember Stijn David who is the author of all articles about the Cholm shield on this site http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/camp...elds/cholm.htm as well as many other printed publications. He studied this subject for a long time, wrote books, articles about Cholm shields, met German Cholm veterans, etc ..and after all this, with all his knowledge, bought a fake:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=35151
I am not an expert here but I always learn, compare original examples and analyze them, and it was me who pointed out that Stijn's shield is a fake and supported my observations with facts, not just "hit-and-run" as others.. So I would really appreciate it if you do the same with my shield if you think it is not original for any reason.
Below is another interesting "reference book": example of how much information was/is available tocollectors on Cholm shields: the top shield is presented as an "original example"!Attached Files
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Hi bnz,
I am impressed in the way you did your research and presented your conclusions in this thread.
I have never doubted the originality of the so called long "M" Cholm shield and I do think that after reading your thread it would be very hard to deny the fact that the long "M" Cholm shield is indeed a 100% original shield.
Maybe we should pin this thread as it also has the most relevant links to other long "M" Cholm shield discussions.
Kr
Pascal
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