EK1 Spange combo Godet

[chrisje110]

Heey guys,

This has been offered for auction by Ratisbons. I have never seen a L/50 marked Spange in 10+years of collecting, I would like to have some opinions on this piece before I will bid,

Thanks alot,

Chris

[chrisje110]

More..

[chrisje110]

Even more..

[chrisje110]

Makers mark,

[Jean-Claude]

Hi Chris,

I've never seen a L/50 EK I spange before either (or an EK I marked "silber" instead of the more common "800" (or whatever) silver grading for that matter so wait for the pros but I love the look of this spange & combo. It was recently shown here in a thread on the SS uniform & insignia forum as part of a larger group attributed to Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

Good luck

JC

[Tony T-S]

I would have asked the jeweler to have another go at the soldering... with the spange properly centred, but that's me.

[tinmantis]

I believe this is a good rare spange. I have seen one marked L/52, and a combo such as this owned by a notable collector/dealer (I tried to buy it!) up to this point I thought they were marked L/52 - 800 (this is only the third I've seen) I had pictures, but for the life of me, I cannot find them!
I hope someone else can enlighten us, it looks such a beautiful combo
regards
jon

[beuwulf]

It looks like it ones was a L/52 and strucked again with L/50..?

[sanya13]

for me this the mm L/50 a little strange

[chrisje110]

Thanks guys for your opinions,

I do like the piece, did anyone ever see other Godet EK1 spanges ?
What about the EK1 itself, is that a typical Godet piece ?

[dc9]

There are a number of photos shown in the auction -- have you been able to do a close comparison of the two? Maybe using the offset soldering of the spange as a telltale indicator.

I tried to do the same with the DKiG - there seems to be a notable difference of how the starbursts line up on the 9 o'clock and 11 o'clock arms. I couldn't get good enough resolution to see a clear difference though...


Eric

[August von Mackensen]

Very interesting!



Over the years I have never seen such a combo with two screw backs, but thats maybe me, now I´ve seen this one here on the top and I found a second one for auction at Andres Thies, please have a look at this, in my opinion this combo looks really nice, I believe the above mentioned sample shows the same setup like the one on my pictures here, taken from the upcoming Andres Thies auction.


Matt

[August von Mackensen]

Last one, this combo shows an extreme nice frosting, which I like most!

[rbminis]

Last one, this combo shows an extreme nice frosting, which I like most!

This is a known Deumer screw back spange.
Ralph.

[tinmantis]

thanks for posting those pics of the deumer, not seen them before
regards
jon