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A recent addition to my Mutterkruez collection.
I have never seen one from this maker before.

I actually purchased something else from a person, and I mistakenly received this instead. My item went to someone else as well. I was able to discover who the other buyer was, and found it was someone that I knew.
I thought I could broker a deal, and exchange the items with the other buyer except, I was too late. It was already returned to the seller.

The seller replied to my message that he would re-send the item that I bought, and I could return the Mutterkruez to him.
I asked him how much he was asking for this, because I knew the other buyer had soured to the purchase and was not interested in this Mutterkruez anymore.
I informed him the seller I would be willing to save him the return shipping, and purchase this Mutterkruez, if the price reflected this.
We came to a deal and it is now part of my collection. It also came with a full length ribbon, and a period safety pin.
Ralph.

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Hi all, just startup collecting German and US relics. Have been a avid reader of threads on this forum and would love to be a part of it. Cheers

I picked this up for a friend of mine who has a WWI museum in MN. I wanted to document prior to giving it to him since I have not ever seen one before and thought it might be a good reference for future use. Interesting item.
John

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A man comes home and asks his wife, "What would you do if I won the lottery?" The wife ponders for a minute and says, "I would take half of it and leave." The man replies, "I just won $12.00; here is $6 leave."
John

So I just picked this up today! The seller claimed it as a turkish bayonet, and that seems accurate given the frog. However the only marks on it is the serial number, which seems kind of sloppy. So I’d like to better figure out what this is? Help is super appreciated!

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I recently was able to acquire something that I think is fairly one of a kind: A grouping to four German brothers from Potsdam who all served in the Heer.

As best I can tell, two of them survived the war (one for sure as you’ll see) and two perished. One in the fighting at Stalingrad and the other seemingly in an accident at the base in Peenemünde (site of the V2 rocker program among others).

I think to keep my presentation organized and clear, I will make a separate post for the parts of the grouping that apply to each brother. There is much depth I could go into with each of them, but I’ll try to keep it to a bit of a concise overview.

First post is a photo of the entire Nachlass and the portion that pertains to Feldwebel Gustav Senft .

Gustav Senft served with the signals platoon of Aufklärungs-Abteilung 3 in the Afrika Korps. This was part of the 5th Light Division which drew A-A 3 and Panzer Regiment 5 both from the 3rd Panzer Division and sent them to constitute some of the earliest units of the Afrika Korps. Gustav won the EKII and it is signed by the commander of the 5th Light Division Johannes Streich who was later sacked by Rommel for failing to take Tobruk. Interestingly the back of his EKII certificate contains a narrative on how he earned the award. It reveals how he kept a communications network intact for 5 solid weeks of fighting even while under enemy artillery fire. It appears that Gustav avoided the fate of the Afrika Korps due to medical evacuation. His Wehrpass shows him authorized to wear the Afrika cuff title. He was assigned to Versuchskommando Nord in October of 1942. That was the (in)famous Peenemünde where Hitler’s "miracle weapons" were developed. Appears that he was actually quartered in the neighboring village of Karlshagen. Unfortunately Gustav died as a result of an accident - details unclear as I cannot read what might be a couple key words - on 19 October, 1944.

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