Would like to show you this inlett of a DK-Etui. The inlett is marked on each side. Thank you for opinions. KR Martin
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Hi Martin,
To all intents, yes it's a genuine 637 KB base for the 'large' DK case.
Kr
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Thank you Marcus for the information! KR MartinComment
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Some of the post war cases also have those with markings. The ones I saw were a bin faint.Comment
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These have also been on eBay recently. Here's one I picked up a while ago, but received no comments on.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=314011
It currently resides in my pile of "questionable" items.
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Do you mean post-war as in the 1957 variants? If so, that is quite correct, I know of a sparse few only wartime shells and bases fitted out in materials of the very era as was to house earlier 1957 awards.
Then you have the infamous post-war DK case synonymous with the S&L that also has the 637 KB base. These are rather two-a-penny for comfort!
I don't feel these or any other KB, DB or specific bases have been replicated post-war by design, nor do I envisage any requirement to produce such bases with the specialised punched recesses for anything other than the related awards.
So it restricts any purpose to produce such post-war really. Where as numerous award makers may have had a sideline or sole investment in producing and selling awards to the Allied occupying forces - I think little heed was paid to the cases, or indeed post-war production at that.
And besides companies producing bases etc put their efforts into other goods post-war. What we may see, or those used in so called '57 cases and even the odd fake* would be in my estimation surplus. * It is known for fake and genuine bases to be swopped around in their respective counterparts.
I'm told and I even know of bare bases being sold that would best fit Luft awards and even the punch tool for certain case designations (Dresden area) - the latter may have ended up at a Hamburg dealers actually.
The '57 case I have matches the base of a period cases exactly, as far as I can tell. If such a base was made in April 1964, then I can't tell the difference to be honest.
And as to Mike's case, I've not seen anything like it mate, as it stands.
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