MY FIRST IMPRESSIONS OH MY GOD! Is it a ... EK1!?

[5tefan]

MY FIRST IMPRESSION OH MY GOD! Is it a ... EK1?!
What would be your first impression, if you holding such a EK1 in your hand?
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[Tom B]

It's a fake piece of junk

[Hank]

I second that.

[streptile]

Three-piece or one piece?

Can you show some of your famous side-pics please?

[Douglas 5]

Interesting :
Looks like an early cross that design wise got rejected - did not make the cut .
A copper frame that was Ni-plated and coated . I have seen this construction type used by 2 other makers on early examples . The pin has the correct finishing on it .
The scratched date to me appears done post war . Germans do not make 1's like that !

Douglas

[Douglas 5]

Should be 3 piece as the core looks like a different material ?

Douglas

[5tefan]

Three-piece or one piece?

Can you show some of your famous side-pics please?

Hi Trevor ;-)

here you are. One piece and none magnetic.

Ciao

[Tom B]

Junk

[ben bijker]

After taking another look, and another one: I like it.
I think I have seen pictures of something similar before, but I don't really recall it well.
Will do some digging later....

For now : it's an odd original, most likely foreign made.
It looks like they worked from an early meybauer.
Maybe Japanese??

[münster]

After taking another look, and another one: I like it.
I think I have seen pictures of something similar before, but I don't really recall it well.
Will do some digging later....

For now : it's an odd original, most likely foreign made.
It looks like they worked from an early meybauer.
Maybe Japanese??

I say Japanese, and I did see a Japanese EK some months ago from a private family collection that the grandfather was given a Japanese EK1, the Japanese EK1 mimicked a Meybauer exactly as this one does.

[streptile]

I think I have seen pictures of something similar before, but I don't really recall it well. Maybe Japanese??

These were my first two thoughts also: I've seen it before, and maybe it's a Japanese one.

[Dietrich Maerz]

This is the page from Gordon Williamson's book "The Iron Cross of 1939" (2002). Frank Thater reports in his book "Das Eiserne Kreuz 1. Klasse von 1939" (showing the same cross) that 25 were awarded to the survivors of the auxiliary cruiser "Michel", all of them made of silver.
Reportetly another type exists, also in silver, as pictured in the book "The Iron Cross 1. Class" (2010).

Dietrich

[streptile]

Oh yes, there it is Dietrich. Thanks

Honestly, I like your EK1 5tefan. But some never will.

[5tefan]

Many Thanks to all opinion ;-)
I know it after 8 seconds, I hold this cross in my hand!
The biggest problem I have, it is not my EK1!
But the owner like my www.ek1-dna.de data base and he wanted support my web page. Many Thanks

Now I Need the 21 marked EK1 Pictures like I do, would help as well ;-)

[Ludwig]

Now that clumsy made cross became very nice and interesting!