CCC for Review - AGMuK

[Rob W.]

Picked all of this stuff up a couple days ago from a 90 year old lady who received everything from an admiring GI at the end of WWII. Unless some items were copies bought at a PX, I'm assuming they are are all genuine. All opinions welcome. Thanks

[Rob W.]

Clasp

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Back

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Close up

[Thomas Durante]

Hi Rob,

This looks like a typical setup from a Deumer sovenier board put together after the war from leftovers and sold to sovenier hungry GIs. You can see the small ribbons and some are not correct for the award like the EK2 with west wall ribbon. Even the CCC is in the correct spot top left and is the typical AGMuK clasp. The spoon didn’t usually come with the Deumer board and don’t j ow much about it, but everything else is typical original stuff from a Deumer postwar board.

Tom

[Rob W.]

Thank you Tom. So if I sell off a few of the items, would it be accurate to describe them as WWII Deumers? I think the spoon was thrown in later and is a souvenir from a high school in Tacoma, Washington. Their symbol is (I believe even today) the swastika - although not Nazi related.

[Van]

Like Mr. Tom said, a typical Deumer board, I have had a couple of these my self without the spoon. Very nice set.
Van

[Rob W.]

Thank you Van. Do you think it has more collector value as an intact board or would it be ok to sell off individual pieces?

[Stepdale]

Rob,
As far as I know, the majority of items are considered Deumer except for the CCC. I'm not entirely sure on the consensus for the Krim shield maker. Some of the medal rings and the mini Mother's Cross may have Deumer markings. Since there are 2 EK2s, one of them may also not be Deumer, but you would have to post them and the spange in the EK forum to get confirmation as to makers. I believe the spange may be marked but off hand I can't say for sure if Deumer marked their EK1 spangen or not.

If you put in Deumer board for a search you should find several threads on the forum.

Nice haul.
Dale

[Stepdale]

Just saw your last thread. You'd probably make more money selling them individually but some collectors don't like to break up groups. Since this set has already been removed from the original board it may not be a big deal.
Dale

[Rob W.]

Ok, thanks Dale. I'm in no hurry to sell off pieces of it but now won't worry about breaking up a historical artifact.