EK II "21" marked, comments wanted!

[Carl Ellingstad]

Hi Guys!

This one have currently poped up in big quantity (20-30 pieces) here in Norway via a German dealer. The reputation of this dealer is very mixed based on what I have heard. Is it good?

[Carl Ellingstad]

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[Carl Ellingstad]

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[George Stimson]

It's good.

[Peter Wiking]

Thats a good one.

Cheers.
Peter

[Carl Ellingstad]

Whow! what about the big quantity? Has there been found a big storage of this EK II some where in Europe recently?

Regards
Carl

[Rich G]

I, personally, am suspicious but I cannot fault the cross, but then one couldn't fault the 333 EKII's either except for the bogus maker number.

[Carl Ellingstad]

But where do they come from

Just spoken with a friend of mine who is attending to the Stuttgart show, He told me that two German dealers down on the parking lot had plastic bags with around 10-15 pieces of the same 21 marked EK II in their pockets.

Do anyone know where they have found this storage of 21 marked EK II ?
There must have been some since several German dealers have them for sale!
The manufactures of such medals, did they ship cardboard boxes of 100 pieces of EK II to a division/Regiment ? And that such shipment have been found recently?

[Peter Wiking]

I have a near mint EK2 with a 21 marking. It has nice frosting and is of high quality, just as expected from awards made by Godet. I see nothing wrong with these. Are we not talking about the same fear we had or have around 26 marked EK1´s and RK´s by K&Q ?

Cheers.
Peter

[George Stimson]

Not to mention that the frame and obverse core die characteristics appear identical to those of the Godet EK 1.

[Peter Wiking]

The manufactures of such medals, did they ship cardboard boxes of 100 pieces of EK II to a division/Regiment ? And that such shipment have been found recently?

The photo and content belongs to another forum member.

Cheers.
Peter

[Ron Weinand]

Shipper

Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while.
Ron Weinand
Weinand Militaria

[Jim Baker]

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[ronsel]

I've been following this issue because I wanted to buy one of this crosses. In the last three months I have seen 7 of this crosses sold. 4 here on the e-stand and 3 on militariaweb. Both sellers were german and all the crosses were in near mint condition. I'm a newbie and I'm in no condition to raise suspitions on this issue, but this 21 fever must have a logical explanation. A finding?

[Indy]

Carl.....is that cheap or reasonable?

If possible ....get some to here

regards

Indy