Hello gents, this is very interesting fieldmade knights cross, I would like some opinions about this award.
Best regards,
Franko
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes
Hello gents, this is very interesting fieldmade knights cross, I would like some opinions about this award.
Best regards,
Franko
IMO, you should not consider paying more for this than the value of the document, ribbon, and a normal EK II.
There is no way to prove that these items belong together.
Ralph.
Searching for anything relating to, Anton Boos, 934 Stamm. Kp. Pz. Erz. Abt. 7, 3 Kompanie, Panzer-Regiment 2, 16th Panzer-Division (My father)
You are right Ralph absolutely, for me even if it really belongs together I could never consider this as a real, legitimate knights cross. Its interesting piece nevertheless, but at that point of war when this was awarded (26.4) Third Reich as a state was barely existed, so this fieldmade knights crosses are unaccaptable for me. Simply, in my opinion, at the end of the april and the beginning of may, there were no authorities anymore to gave awards like this.
Best regards,
Franko
Ralph is correct unfortunately there is no provenance to actually put the items together in 1945 , realistically the most interesting item is actually the document but that needs to be examined thoroughly in itself .
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
I agree with Ralph and Paul here and it seems you do too.
These "temporary" RK are always intriguing and I am sure such situations did arise. However, even with bombproof provenance to make it interesting it will only ever be that, "interesting" and little more than a messed with EKII. We do well to remember that you or I could have done this in the garden shed last week!!
As Pauls says, the document is the real interest if it can be authenticated.
Regards
Mark
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Although its indeed interesting, to me every of that late war field made knights crosses are pure fantasy. And if turn out for that document to be real, as I already mentioned above, in my opinion no one could gave award like that at 26.april 1945, because at that moment Third Reich practically wasnt exist and there was no authority anymore.
Best regards,
Franko
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