Eastern Front Campaign medal marked "136"

[DaveNZ]

I recently obatined a Ostfront medal: it has all the hallmarks of an original: the medal has good detail although quite worn due to aging.

The ring is stamped with the numbers 136 as far as i can make out.

This number is not listed on this site as far as i am aware. has anyone come across this makers mark before?

regards

Dave

[MH184]

Hi Dave,

Welcome to the forum.


136 is J.Wagner & Sohn, Berlin. They're attributed mostly to the manufacture of EK's and Imperial/Prussian awards and famously the 1870 EK it seems.

If you do a search on the Crosses Forum, it brings up EK's and KVK's with this maker mark. I'm also pretty sure there exists a wound badge produced by this maker.

I'll search my collection of award packets and see if the name crops up on any of those too.

Kr

Marcus

[DaveNZ]

Thanks Marcus. Yes It had not occured to me to do a search with the MM on the forum so many thanks for the info.

the interesting thing with this medal is that the ring is made out of a metal of very different quality to the medal itself: it looks almost like it is made of a brass.

As the Eastern Front is my main focus of interest in all things WW2 Ostfront medals are of particular interest to me.
cheers

Dave