DK's from the Farré collection

[Stijn David]

Hello,


In this thread i wil post pictures for my good friend Angel Farré from 2 German crosses maker marked " 20 " , i let Angel comment these awards and let him ask his question ( enjoy these " sexy " beauty's )

Greetings,

pic1 : fronts

[Stijn David]

dk 2

And here is the following picture :

[Stijn David]

dk 3

Picture 3 , the reverse from the mint one

[Stijn David]

DK again

And here is a close up from the maker mark " 20 " on the inside of the pin

[Stijn David]

dk

And here a close up from the catch

[Stijn David]

dk

And finally a nice overvieuw from the DK in its original award case ( My god you make me kind of drool over these )

[IVAN]

Hi David,

let me said I have some perplexity about the originality of the left one in mint conditions but maybe can be for not good quality of images.

The right DK is very good looking , it has a very nice old patina, the dimentions of svastika are right and 1941 too.
Must to see the reverse too, but my opinion is a good original piece.

The other new one, my modest opinion it look really new. It has done very well but The dimentions of svastika looks wrong ( look the arm up, maybe is a photo's effect?) ), the 1941 is strange and the pin back is not like we can find in any DK. The quality of metal in reverse it looks not right (but maybe is only a photo-effect). for 20 marker the pic is not clear but the 2 is not good looking.

Will be interesting to know the weight and measures ( it looks like a light type)

The case looks original ( from what we can see from one pic)

Regards

Ivam

[Angel Farré]

Thanks to my friend David for posting this pictures and others, my principal question regards about cleaning the used one, someone knows how to clean the background of the svastica, it looks great now, but I want to prevent further damage, the minty ones has no problem, it comes from a reputable dealer and meets all the weights and measures of other originals shown here and in other forums and books. measures are a little bit more than 63.10 and almost 63.20, my caliber is not so accurate but I can assure it seem like being 63.12 and 63.18, unafortunately no option to weight it, but is a light weight one, I check the pin and looks the same as others incluiding the ones in the article, the maker mark is exactly the same as the one found in other two in a friend collection coming directly from vets and the svastica has no problem in dimensions and construction, I want to know more about this as we are here to learn. I have no doubts after check it with other collectors and all give me his blesses regarding the piece. Perhaps the photos aren't clear enough or his positions were not so good to look certain details, are the ones my friend sent to me when offering it.

Cheers

Angel