Hi all
,
I thought I'd share a new cross that came in today, an early unmarked Juncker EKII. Looking it over closely I see that the frosting is the 'chemically applied' type which takes away some of the finer details on the beading, although it is still quite nice. If I'm not mistaken this was Juncker's second method of 'frosting' the beading, the first being hand-painting the frosting material directly to the beading, circa 1939. It appears to have a nickel silver jump ring, although it could possibly be a thin layer of nickel silver over a copper or brass ring. The ribbon ring is a large 14.75mm outside dia., 1.65mm dia. silver wire. The cross measures 44.51mm wide, and 44.30mm tall, 4.28mm thick, 1.53mm thick rim. I'm presuming the frame is nickel silver over neusilber or tombak, although it could be made from early 50% coin silver. I'm sure someone will correct me on this. The frame fits tightly over the core, which is magnetic. Both halves of the frame look to be the same thickness. Something interesting to note, and especially noticeable on the reverse view of the cross, are the inside corners of the frame don't come together in the center uniformly. The left side upper corner is a little higher than the right corner. I've noticed this feature on my other Juncker crosses.
You may have noticed this week that two other unmarked crosses like these on a popular Hamburg site sold for $390.00 ea. I found this one for considerably less. With shipping this would be well over $400.00 for an unmarked EKII, well within the cost of a marked EKI. I don't know what's driving these crosses through the roof, but it was very surprising to me to see these two fetch that amount.
I hope you enjoy the photos...
Robert
,I thought I'd share a new cross that came in today, an early unmarked Juncker EKII. Looking it over closely I see that the frosting is the 'chemically applied' type which takes away some of the finer details on the beading, although it is still quite nice. If I'm not mistaken this was Juncker's second method of 'frosting' the beading, the first being hand-painting the frosting material directly to the beading, circa 1939. It appears to have a nickel silver jump ring, although it could possibly be a thin layer of nickel silver over a copper or brass ring. The ribbon ring is a large 14.75mm outside dia., 1.65mm dia. silver wire. The cross measures 44.51mm wide, and 44.30mm tall, 4.28mm thick, 1.53mm thick rim. I'm presuming the frame is nickel silver over neusilber or tombak, although it could be made from early 50% coin silver. I'm sure someone will correct me on this. The frame fits tightly over the core, which is magnetic. Both halves of the frame look to be the same thickness. Something interesting to note, and especially noticeable on the reverse view of the cross, are the inside corners of the frame don't come together in the center uniformly. The left side upper corner is a little higher than the right corner. I've noticed this feature on my other Juncker crosses.
You may have noticed this week that two other unmarked crosses like these on a popular Hamburg site sold for $390.00 ea. I found this one for considerably less. With shipping this would be well over $400.00 for an unmarked EKII, well within the cost of a marked EKI. I don't know what's driving these crosses through the roof, but it was very surprising to me to see these two fetch that amount.
I hope you enjoy the photos...
Robert
Comment