Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross with out swords

[MH184]

Hello,

Time for some big boys,

Weight 41.9g (A nice girl at Tesco's weighed it, I'll take it down the post office at a later date)

Maker mark 1 and silver content 950 I think, it looks like 950 I will get better photo's on Wednesday.

The markings look like Jody Beltrams.

Please don't consign this to the fake bin because of my antic's; what do think guy's.

Kind regards,

Marcus

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Oh dear me I think I'm in trouble my Jo has just phoned me, it weighs 33.8g at the post office ?????????????

Moderators can you take this off before I look like a VERY big fool.

I think I know I'm in the **** now, even more so with Jo !

Marcus

[Gordon Williamson]

Marcus

The correct weight for a Deschler RK of the KVK without Swords is around 34gr, so 33.8 is about right for weight.

What you really need is extreme close up images of the central oakleaf wreaths/swastika/dates etc and compare the shape of the leaves etc with a benchmark original like Jody's They should be EXACTLY the same if they both came from the Deschler tooling.
Too hard to say for sure from the images posted.

[Mark S.]

I noticed that the two bars holding the ring to the cross are solid, where other I have seen are ribbed...is this a charactistic of Deschler, or have I just not seen enough of these?

[Dick Pumphrey]

Hi Mark,
The "solid" supports are on the version without swords. The "ribbed" supports are on the swords version. The ribbon loops are also like this.
Regards,
Dick

[Stijn David]

KVK KC

Hello,



is this the one Detlev had for sale a few weeks ago ?



cordial greetings,

[MH184]

No Stijn if it was I wouldn't have any concerns.

Kind regards,


Marcus

[MH184]

I'm all of a sudden not so worried All the same I'll scan/post some much better pic's.

Thankyou for all your help and the time you took out on ths Gordon, very much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Marcus

[W. C. Stump]

WREATH/SWASTIKA AND DATES

Here is the obverse of Jody's.

[W. C. Stump]

REVERSE

The reverse of Jody's.