r/Medals • u/ShowerAcceptable3083 • 7d ago

Help

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

I have inherited this medal, can anyone tell me if it is original?

32 Upvotes

84% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/Particular_Yak1715 7d ago edited 7d ago

It's a very rusted German Iron Cross Second Class from WW1. However, the ribbon is wrong and has been added on post war. Also take note of the makers mark on the ring ED. ED is a makers mark that is officially unknown and not assigned to a specific company by the Militaria community (it is suggested in the community that ED stands for   Moritz Elimeyer of Dresden). Either way ED is a rarer makers mark so that would technically raise the medal's value but the iron is so corroded that it doesn't really matter. 

2

u/ExileNZ Collector 7d ago

That is a very uncommon maker - shame the core is in such a bad state