Spange Iron Cross I

[ehansl02]

Hello guys,

what do you think about this spange?
Is it an original or a fake?
What Marker could it be?

I do not have better pictures...

Best wishes
Eduard

[ehansl02]

Backside:

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Detail:

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Front II.

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No opinions?

[DavidM]

Hello

I'm not 100% certain with this one. There are some things about it I like, and some bits I don't, but on balance more bits I like than I don't like.

Based on that, and this is just my personal opinion, I feel that this bar is ok and could well be one of the so called 'intermediate' type bars - that is one of the bars between the first type and the later, more commonly encountered forms. It has both a sharpness, and a niavety about it that suggests an 'intermediate type. I hope I'm right, as this would make it one the rarer and more interesting examples.

I don't know who the maker is. If I'm correct in my opinion that this bar is good, which I feel it is, the best stab at a maker I could take would be Deumer.

Hopefully some of the other bar specialists will chime in with their opinions.

Regards
David