Spanish Campaign Medal-lg.condor

[fugpaw]

Yes, you******180;re right. I have one of them double marked with "Industrias Ega******241;a" at the back and "AM" at the front. I******180;ll try to take some pictures tomorrow. This thread is getting really interesting.

Regards,
Adolph.

I'll "join the club" and try and get some pics of mine tomorrow. The one I have is "mint" still in it's original box and waxed paper wrapping.

Does anyone know (before I go off searching) if the Industrias Egana company is still in existence?

[Scott C.]

Thanks Adolph - I just discovered the "A.M." marked one too.

How about everyone in WAF-land that has one of these medals (who hasn't already posted), post clear front/back images; and if it's on a medal bar, post pics of the full bedal bar as well (front/back) . I'll post my results when I run out of different types.

Thanks in advance!

Scott

[CIANO]

Dear All,

Herewith the close up of the ring.The photos are not the best...
This one has no markings at all, and the black painture is a little bit odd, which may me think, that is a post war medal,made in the 60's or 70's...
As I said our Spanish Forum Members can give us a lot of input about this medal....

[CIANO]

close up of the ring

[Scott C.]

Ciano, thank you for the additional pictures. I would agree with you - it does look like a cast reproduction. This is the first reproduction I've seen of this medal.

Scott

[CIANO]

Thank you for your comment.
Scott, this medal is so common, that I have never thought that were "repros" around, at least not made by EGANA
Anyway I am glad that you can see the first "repro", with your yes
Still waiting for our Spanish friends... Where are they?

cheers

Ciano

[Scott C.]

Perhaps this thread should be moved to the "International Forum" since this is a Spanish award...we might get more Spanish input there?

Scott

[Anthony N]

I'll take some better photos, hopefully tomorrow evening. Ant.

[Joe D]

Thanks Scott for posting that. This makes it very interesting.
I think i must agree with you that MOST original Spanish Campaign medals have the added "Balloon".
Your 2 medal bars are the first i have seen WITHOUT the "balloon".
Any more information/pictures greatly welcomed. I think that when seen on a Third Reich medal bar they can be dated more easily. Could there be a difference between 1938 issue & late WWII issue?
Ant.

Here are thee more authentic medal bars without the "balloon". In my personal opinion this "balloon" theory does not hold much weight.

[Joe D]

Close-up of top bar.

[Joe D]

Close-up of bottom left bar.

[Joe D]

Close-up of bottom right bar.

[Scott C.]

Joe - thanks for sharing your superb medal bars here, and you're probably right about most period SCW Campaign Medals not being the baloon type.

Joe, can you please provide a full front and reverse shot of the SCW campaign medal from post #40 above?

Thanks again.

Scott

Here are my two - both are the balloon type.

[ADOLPH]

Thank you for your comment.
Scott, this medal is so common, that I have never thought that were "repros" around, at least not made by EGANA
Anyway I am glad that you can see the first "repro", with your yes
Still waiting for our Spanish friends... Where are they?

cheers

Ciano

Here we are.
Don******180;t confuse. It******180;s not a repro. Although it******180;s not wartime, this medal is still available as a replacement for veterans. As I said in another post, the quality is very poor, but it******180;s official. So it******180;s not a fake or a repro as you may want to consider it. There are plenty of them at the military tailors, mixed up with modern awards, badges, headgear, pins, etc...

This is also confusing for me. I have a few medals and I never noticed anything like that. Probably I considered it a very common medal.


Regards,
Adolph.

[Anthony N]

Here are thee more authentic medal bars without the "balloon". In my personal opinion this "balloon" theory does not hold much weight.

Thanks Joe!
Well, i have still seen far more Third Reich medal bars with the balloon on the Spanish medal, infact i have only ever seen yours & Scott's without, but i have seen a lot more with the balloon?
As far as we know there was only one maker, so if that is true then we have to say that they made 2 different designs at the same time? I think this unlikely. Since there are far fewer balloon type medals out there i am still more of the opinion that the balloon may have been the first, with the change comng during WWII. After all by 1943 the medal would have been around for 5 years, although by that time also it would be unusual to have a medal bar made up in Germany.
Also could you give pictures of the back of your medal bar.
Thanks, Ant.