Knights cross and Spanish cross in bronze - authenticity help requested

[Nabs]

Greetings everyone,

I have been watching and reading these forums for a couple of months and see the value of information and knowledge that is stored here. Now I registered and come to you with a request for help. I am planning on moving out of my WW2 German collection towards my WW1 German heritage and as such I am parting with a large portion of my WW2 German medal collection. I wish to know if these items are originals or fakes.

I bought them about 10 years ago from a collector who worked for "Academy coins & Militaria". They were sold to me under the premise of being originals, except for the Knights cross which he was not sure. As I was starting collecting back then, I didn't know much about the fakes. I had heard some stories but that was my extent of knowledge on the subject.

I posted on a militaria forum I frequent and everyone recommended I come here to seek assistance.

I also have a gold wound badge, Afrika korp cuff title, and a Luftwaffe ground assault badge that I will be posting the appropriate sub forums, and that I wish to ask for authenticity help with.

I appreciate any and all help that you experts can provide.

Knights Cross with ribbon, as compared to my Iron Cross 2nd class:































Spanish civil war cross in bronze:

[FrankS]

The Knights Cross is definitely a fake

[Peter J.]

The KC is a post-war Souval and the SC is just but ugly IMHO.

cheers
Peter

[liquide]

I`m sorry, but the spanish cross is a 100% fake


best regards,
Martin

[Bob Hritz]

Sorry, but both are post-war copies.

Bob Hritz

[Tony T-S]

Dipping 3 Souval, which is the pick of the fillers. This one hasn't been finished so nicely along the edges

[petopoint]

KC fake and SC bad

Hope you didn't get your clocked cleaned but the postwar Souval KC might be desirable to a collector of Rudolf Souval postwar creations. But and yet for a tiny fraction of what an originals value is.

[magnusmilitaria]

both repros

[Nabs]

Greetings gentlemen. Thank you for responding and having a look at the medals in question.

I am happy I did not pay out the nose for these when I was starting out. In the last few years, I have seen some poor copies surface as you all have mentioned are out there.

I just never got around to posting images of the medals and getting them appraised so I am very happy to finally know the truth behind them.

[AlikN]

Date design on that EK-2 looks very close to date on Souval's RK, "3" is very similar.


.....is it postwar Souval EK-2?

[Nabs]

Hello again everyone,

I am just curious. I looked at another post with a Spanish cross confirmed as an original then I looked back at the one posted here but I don't see what makes it stand out as a post war fake ? Is it the feathers on the eagles or the placement of the swastika ?

Thank you for your time.

[Snni]

Date design on that EK-2 looks very close to date on Souval's RK, "3" is very similar.


.....is it postwar Souval EK-2?

Nope, the Ek2 are made by #75 Unknown maker..

[Hank C.]

Nope, the Ek2 are made by #75 Unknown maker..

Agreed, good EK2.

best
Hank