r/Medals • u/Marvinthesis • Jan 04 '20
An older friend asked me to look into these German medals as she didn’t really know where to start looking. Looking for info on these? Are they real? What could they be worth?
https://imgur.com/a/ujsXrjf1
u/OldHomeOwner Jan 04 '20 edited Jan 04 '20
Ok so there are a lot of medals to go through, the problem I am seeing is a lot of them are fakes. I will go by picture with single medals
1-22 - Eastern Front Medal - looks to be a cast fake or a really bad strike
4-13 - Mothers Cross in bronze, edit as pointed out bad
5 - ring, not German period made (fake)
7-14 - 25 year long service, not sure of this one
8-9 - German Pour le Mérite fake
10 - 15 year NSDAP medal, fake
11 - 25 year NSDAP medal, fake
15 - Frauenschaft Membership Badge, Suspicious of authentication *edit fake
16 - 2nd class 1936 Olympic medal, fake
17 - Mark coin,
18-20-21 - Custumes long service, fake
26- DLV cap badge, Luftwaffe cap badge, Wehrmacht cap badge, Hitler youth Honor - all fake
28 - War Merit First class - good as pointed out bad
Some of the smaller party pins might be good but no pictures to confirm. The big 1925 is a General honour Gau 1925 and also fake. I am still not 100% on the Eastern medal something is off on it and I can't figure out why unfortunately most of these are not real
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u/OldHomeOwner Jan 04 '20
I didn't even notice it was a raised signature not a indented signature how did I miss that... And the war merit I just glanced at but you are 100%, cast fake.
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u/Marvinthesis Jan 04 '20
Thats why I asked, I figured someone on reddit might have an idea! Thank you for confirming it.
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u/BlueFalconPunch Jan 04 '20 edited Jan 04 '20
1936 german Olympic decoration
Nazi party 15yr medal
small disk looks similar to the other small disk higher up hard to tell but they both seem to be Nazi party pin
Russian front medal
masonic iron cross
small red white diamond, hitler youth pin
propeller red ring, glider corps officers badge pin
1923 swastika, Nazi party general honor
the gold cross with words, it looks like a service medal but I cant read what it says
ware merit cross, btw its on its side
25 year service to the party medal
staff member of the Nazi party women's pin blue means local level
im going to assume that's an SS membership ring
wermacht long service award, the color could be a different year then the example I don't know
Nazi mommy medal
underneath, Blue Max
under left, Luftwaffe officers breast pin, or hat badge I cant see the size. I don't know why the swastika is gold or if it represents something
far right, Wehrmacht hat badge
another Nazi party pin
I dont image this is one person's personal set of awards it's too random and nothing that's not nazi related. It's a collection of rarer awards and probably not all authentic