Fake KC with oakleaves?!?

[Peter Wiking]

Hello Shane,

I have a friend, who is not a member of this forum, that has an 800 marked Junckers Knights Cross that is ground dug. The silver frame is textbook Junckers with the cross hatching (####) at the inner frames. The iron core is totally corroded but the frames are in good shape. You can't make out much detail at all except a lump in the center where the swastika was located and a little bit of the dates, front and back. So my persceptive is that any ground dug Knights Cross would be in the same condition as my friends RK. The cross shown here is a fraud.

Cheers,
David

Interesting. Could you post a few scanns front/back that we could use as reference in the future ?

Many thanks.
Peter Wiking

[Dietrich Maerz]

Hello,


this is how a ground dug is looking!

[Tim Tezer]

I agree. The only ground dug EK's that I have seen have had the centers corroded beyond recognition. This cross is complete nonsense.

When I was a kid we played a trick on my best friend's little brother. We planted a "lost" pirate map and made sure he found it, and then filled his head with an elaborate lie about how he could find the treasure but first he would have to face down the ghost of the pirate who was guarding it, etc. These stories were fun, but we didn't charge the poor kid 12,000 Euros for them.

Tim

[Airborne Nut]

Thanks David and Deitrich!

That is exactly what I thought. The main one on the first page of this thread appears as if the wearer only dropped it into the mud for a week or two compared to these real ground dug ones.

Thanks again Fellas!

-Shane