GERMANY Veteran’s miniature set (1930s)
$35.00
GERMANY, miniature set, no date (1930s), three miniatures: Iron Cross 1914, Honor Cross 1914-1918, and Faithful Service in Home Army 2 Class, on a double braided chain hanger with a stickpin at each end, and another Iron Cross miniature in a gilt olive wreath, mostly brass, the miniature medals are about 16mm diameter, for civilian wear, for a veteran, 4 pieces, there’s a bit of corrosion on the reverse of the Landwehr medal, and the iron Cross in wreath, otherwise VF-XF
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Description
After World War I German veterans’ organizations liked to get in uniforms and march around and have ceremonies. They made lots of commemorative medals for themselves, and had miniature medals made to wear with their civilian clothes.
Medals, awards, decoration, insignia, documents, equipment, of military, police, private, and irregular military style organizations. We sometimes sell small weapons but we do not sell working firearms. If a thing happens to be military but is hundreds of years old I stop thinking of it as a military thing and start thinking of it as a relic or an antiquity. I suppose that means that “militaria” really starts around the middle of the 19th century or so, when uniforms became normal. Does that seem right to you?
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
