CCC in gold with top hook

[jacques]

Hi,
Here is a beautiful item. CCC in gold with top hook. Not often seen within collections. I should be happy to get here more pics of yours or ex-yours, from both variants. I tryed to search but don't find much on the last threads.
jacques

[jacques]

reverse showing the hook

[Jeff V]

Beautiful Jacques!!! Here is a link to Mark's clasp.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=161814

best wishes,
jeff

[Porsche]

Jacques,
there's some photo's of a GWB with top hook in the Rolf Michaelis book "Die Nahkampfspange des Heeres". I've heard that people question badges with the hook, but I believe that the example in Michaelis's book is directly from the owner.

Neil

[Bob Hritz]

Jacques,

That is a very fine original and one you do not have to question.

Bob Hritz

[mmiller]

Jacques,
there's some photo's of a GWB with top hook in the Rolf Michaelis book "Die Nahkampfspange des Heeres". I've heard that people question badges with the hook, but I believe that the example in Michaelis's book is directly from the owner.

Neil

Hi Neil,

Authentic Presentation NKSs must have a top hook. But just because a NKS has a top hook, does not by default, make it either good or bad. Lots of other necessary characteristics come into play.

Jacques,

Very pretty!

Regards,
Mark

[Peter J.]

Jacques, thanks for sharing this rarely seen beauty

KR
Peter

[Stan]

CCC in Gold with top hook

Here is a 1st pattern Gold Clasp which was purchased from the family of Rittmeister Gunther Konopacki.

Stan

[Stan]

CCC in Gold with top hook

Reverse.

Stan

[Stan]

CCC in Gold with top hook

Some of the documents. Konopacki was informed about the award of Oakleaves in the same telegramm which informed him of his CCC in Gold.

Also, note date of award 16th March 1945, which means that some 1st pattern clasps were still being issued at the end of the war.

Stan

[Stan]

CCC in Gold with top hook

Konopacki's Bundeswher ribbon bar and miniatures.

Stan

[Thomas Durante]

Wow, nice clasps guys! Now that is type of gold finish I would expect to see on a CCC. Nice gold tone and burnished highlights. Also, its nice to see the documented evidence to support that this was the typical finish even at the end of the war.

Tom D.

[Marc Garlasco]

Amazing - so rare and in such condition! It must be the cherry atop your collections!
Marc

[Chet Sowersby]

Thank you both for sharing these drop dead gorgeous clasps!

Chet

[Bob Hritz]

How wonderful to see both distinct types of originals. They are obviously different dies, but these are the 2 types that are fine. Look at the bayonet blades, expecially.

There are clever fakes of this badge; I know from bad experience, having bought one of the fakes. Such a valuable lesson, I learned!

Bob Hritz