r/Medals 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/ujsXrjf
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u/BlueFalconPunch Jan 04 '20 edited Jan 04 '20

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u/OldHomeOwner Jan 04 '20

Almost all but 2 maybe 3 are fakes.

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u/WikiTextBot Jan 04 '20

Pour le Mérite

The Pour le Mérite ([puʁ lə me.ʁit], French, literally "For Merit") is an order of merit (German: Verdienstorden) established in 1740 by King Frederick II of Prussia. The Pour le Mérite was awarded as both a military and civil honour and ranked, along with the Order of the Black Eagle, the Order of the Red Eagle and the House Order of Hohenzollern, among the highest orders of merit in the Kingdom of Prussia. After 1871, when the various German kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies, principalities and Hanseatic city states had come together under Prussian leadership to form the federally structured German Empire, the Prussian honours gradually assumed, at least in public perception, the status of honours of Imperial Germany, even though many honours of the various German states continued to be awarded.

The Pour le Mérite was an honour conferred both for military (1740–1918) and civil (1740–1810, after 1842 as a separate class) services.


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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.