Inherited collection-Need lots of help.

[rameses]

congratulations by its inheritance, has a question, a good collector does not want fakes single likes original, knows it so that to tapeworm so many repro. thanks and luck

[rameses]

congratulations by pleasant his cufftitle Spanish

[Biro]

congratulations by its inheritance, has a question, a good collector does not want fakes single likes original, knows it so that to tapeworm so many repro. thanks and luck

Ya gotta love 'Babel Fish'......

I wouldn't mind seeing the EK1/Spange combo either Andy...

[Dave Kane]

A few pints have the same affect!

[ANDY BUTKUS]

A few pints have the same affect!

[Chris Boonzaier]

There is a note with this to say that it is a WW1 Iron Cross certificate signed by Generanl Paulus. My research on the net shows Paulus to be the General involved with the surrender of Stalingrad. Could this be the same person and would this effect the value of the certificate(If it is real!!!!)
Thanks
Andy

Hi Andy,
this was signed by Karl Paulus, it is a different guy. Stalingrad Friedrich Paulus was in the same division but not in the 1st Regt. He was Regimentsadjutant for a short while n the 2nd regt.

all the best
Chris

[andya]

medal bar

Many thanks for the information.

Regards
Andy

[Darrell]

Many thanks for the information.

Regards
Andy

Andy are you going to post pictures of the ones everyone is eager to see?

[andya]

reply to query

PlM Pour le Merite. You said you thought it was a repro. So I was wondering why so many nice items combined with what even you think are modern copies. Whenever I see a grand cross it gets my antennae quivering the repro dance.

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Thanks for the response. I am a collector of British Pre 1920 Medals and Regimental cap badges. I also collect Polish WW2 groups, my interest in this being that my late Grandad was a Pole, wounded at Monte Casino and sent to the UK to recover. He gave me his medals and related paperwork many years ago and this started my collecting. During my years of collecting, I have unfortunately come across some good and some not so good fakes, especially of the Victorian era medals and badges. Upon inspecting this German collection and by making reference to the books also left to me, I have arrived at the conclusion that some of the rarer pieces are copies. I specifically refer to the Knights Cross, Blue Max and possibly the German Cross. The knights cross is a heavy non-magnetic single piece unmarked construction. The Blue max looks like it was possibly made in the last few years(New and shiny) and the German Cross in my opinion does not show the quality referred to in the reference books I have read. It has four rivets to the back and quite a broad pin marked with a 1 but the catch and hinge look cheap. To be honest, the fact that there are copies in the collection does not concern me. I have not paid for this collection and am very very grateful for what I have. I would like to weed out the copies and form a good collection of original items and to this effect I request your help and the help of your fellow experts who use this forum. I do believe that quite a few if not most of the Iron crosses and other medals are possibly genuine and with a bit of luck this will also apply to some of the war badges and cloth items etc. I have trouble posting decent close up pictures with my camera as by using macro the size is too much. I have purchased a scanner today and hopefully this will help to post good pics. Sorry to waffle on, I will get on with posting pictures of the items individually and hopefully start separating the good from the bad. <o></o>

Regards
Andy

[fknorr]

Was this a family member that passed away?

FYI, nice collection...some do raise the antenae for being possible repros but most may be fine.

[Darrell]

Was this a family member that passed away?

FYI, nice collection...some do raise the antenae for being possible repros but most may be fine.

Well it's Andy's collection and if he feels bad about some of the pieces and doesn't want to post them .. that's his right.

However, if it was me , and I was unsure, I'd definitely want to see what's original. Man ... there's a ton of medals there and even if 1/2 are real deals ... there's a huge $$$$ on display.

[sbas]

mmm VERY NICE, you can also try to shrink the pics using a program on your pc! Im looking forward to see more of this...

Sebas

[Hank C.]

Hi Brian<O></O>

Thanks for the response. ......Sorry to waffle on, I will get on with posting pictures of the items individually and hopefully start separating the good from the bad. <O></O>

Regards
Andy

No need to be sorry Andy. TAke your time. It might also help to post individual items in new threads as you get them scanned, instead of continuing this one.
congrats again!

[andya]

New postings

No need to be sorry Andy. TAke your time. It might also help to post individual items in new threads as you get them scanned, instead of continuing this one.
congrats again!

Many thanks
Yes I will take your advise and start new threads with individual items. It could take quite a time but we will get there in the end. Is anyone able to advise me how to resize a picture taken with my digital camera to comply with the posting sizes. The trouble is that to get a good picture I need to use the macro and this picture setting is too high.
Thanks in anticipation
Andy

[paddywhack]

best thing i find is to take nice detailed pics and then reduce them down in paint in windows! you can get nice detailed pics this way! the size limit is 70 by 750
very nice ready made collection (which some of us would sell are first born for! )