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Post by BH Uffz. Belfast on Mar 1, 2014 19:08:05 GMT -6
I finally talked my professor friend out of this Iron Cross First Class 1916 with the box really he was trying to come up with a lot of money to purchase an Blue Max with documentation.I know it was more than 15 thousand dollars way to rich for my blood but got this. It was made 1916 by Wagner and sons of Berlin.Sorry about pics will try to post some better when I get my camera back from friend. Took some other pics with different camera.
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Post by BH Vfw. Lotharludwig on Mar 1, 2014 20:39:00 GMT -6
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Post by FM_SnagglePuss on Mar 2, 2014 11:23:41 GMT -6
LL,
Place sometimg next to the cross so we can get relative size.
Otherwise looks good!
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Post by BH Uffz. Belfast on Mar 3, 2014 13:22:03 GMT -6
You are right Ludwig there were 218,00 Iron Cross First Class were given out there were 5,612,478 were given out In Second Class.I didn't mean to imply that they were scare but it is probably the only chance I would ever get to come close, always wanted one. It is good to hear from you these last few months haven't been able to get on like I would have wanted to this MS is been hard to work certain muscles,still have been getting computer back up and working kinda of stopped,when I went back in hospital. i will make it back with God's help and good friends like you guys.I will post pic navy _Jake good to have you a board. Attachments:
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Post by FM_SnagglePuss on Mar 3, 2014 19:39:10 GMT -6
Belfast, havent had the pleasure yet but looking forward to it!!
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Post by BH Uffz. Belfast on Mar 3, 2014 21:07:55 GMT -6
Ludwig that Spanish Cross is very nice good find!
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Post by BH Vfw. Lotharludwig on Mar 3, 2014 21:20:50 GMT -6
That was back in around 1974... I sold off all that stuff a LONG time ago. I had a friend that was also interested and he had TONS more stuff than I did... mostly because daddy paid for it... Anyway... have fun with it... just do your research HARD because there are LOADS of fakes and some of them really good fakes. I had a friend that collected Russian stuff... he had EVERYTHING... and he got snookered on 2 former USSR orders that were re-enameled to make the 3rd class into a 1st class... and you look at them under a black light and WHOOOOps you can see the difference. He also got hosed on emeralds... when they were REALLY hot... then they found out that some clever dick had injected them with resin under pressure and made them nearly perfect in appearance. He took about a $10,000 bath on that one. YahhhOUCH!
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