Thinking of buying this piece, I appreciate your opinions about its authenticity …

Regards,

Dan

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Good Morning, Friends…
I’ve come across this Freikorps Eiserne Division Medal…Somewhat on the "Salty Side" due to bad storage throughout the ages, it arrived from Germany a few days ago…
I removed the surface-dirt with Rubbing-Alcohol and a Toothbrush…Now I need the Black Ribbon w/White Borders…
I hope you like it…My Eiserne Division Grouping is coming along great, one piece at a time…;)
cheers, Glenn

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original or copy?

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Hi Forum
I have just got this leaflet, do some have more info ?

Ein Wort zum Thema Etappe von Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
Br. Nr. 5617/40. geh
Berlin, den 4. Juli 1940

Geheim

Regards
John

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Fighting/trench-knives or so called Grabendolche have about the same size as the later HJ knives - Fahrtenmesser
Its easy to see that the WW1 birdshead knives by WKC could be one of knives that they looked at desiging the later HJ knife.

In this case it also goes a bit futher, as in the very late build of WKC Knives 1941-42 (mostly unmarked ones) the same narrow bowie blade appears.
It looks like they used an old ww1 stock of old blades to build their last lot of HJ knives.
I have added 2 pictures of Victormann collection which showes them from WW1 to 1942 ( thank Herrmann :)) got the pics when i bought a WKC HJ Knife with bowieblade from him.

The WW1 Hammesfahr trenchknife bears the bufferpad but other than that its a solid knife, the WKC birdshead knife is a hard to find one and its blade is still in great condition, the scabbard did a terrific job, considering it has no bufferpad to loch the scabbards troath!
Nice detail is the logo, which have been stamped twice.

The Grawiso Mottoed early transitional has an early scabbard with only the front runnerits has the Stocko marked button.
The blade is in lovely condition with a clear Motto and stillhaving crossgrain present, on the other side the makers logo on the blade and RZM code on the ricasso.

Enjoy the pics.
Regards,
Ger

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I’ve just noticed my Soviet dog tag holder has a number on the inside of the cap. 1496/2 169 . Does anyone know what these numbers mean ?

Hello to all !!

when you buy an old framed german painting always look carefully at the backside of it !!!

you never know what could be hide in there !!

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