markwadeks98
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As a general rule I only collect bayonets from the german colonies, but these medals occasionally turn up for sale with the ks98 sawback bayonets .
Collecting clasps is a minefield as there are official ones, privately made ones and fakes. To compound the minefield is that many of the clasps had a type one and type two ,and repairs were made as the pins were often weak. The medal itself was awarded to members of the schutztruppe and the clasps could be purchased (if eligible). In practice many members didn't purchase the clasp at the time of service , and then post war had jewellers make them up (popular in the Weimar Republic era) , and this then makes it difficult to ascertain whether it's a post war veteran made one or an unscrupulous forger .
The certificate is a modern print, the wax stamp was added using the original (damaged) stamp in a fellow collector's collection.
Often when finding a medal with clasps there is zero providence to determine originality.
there were 16 clasps awarded for the campaigns in dswa, the rarest two clasps being the kalahari 1907 and 1908 ones (which were also awarded to british forces who assisted in the campaigns as they were fought in british territory)
Collecting clasps is a minefield as there are official ones, privately made ones and fakes. To compound the minefield is that many of the clasps had a type one and type two ,and repairs were made as the pins were often weak. The medal itself was awarded to members of the schutztruppe and the clasps could be purchased (if eligible). In practice many members didn't purchase the clasp at the time of service , and then post war had jewellers make them up (popular in the Weimar Republic era) , and this then makes it difficult to ascertain whether it's a post war veteran made one or an unscrupulous forger .
The certificate is a modern print, the wax stamp was added using the original (damaged) stamp in a fellow collector's collection.
Often when finding a medal with clasps there is zero providence to determine originality.
there were 16 clasps awarded for the campaigns in dswa, the rarest two clasps being the kalahari 1907 and 1908 ones (which were also awarded to british forces who assisted in the campaigns as they were fought in british territory)
- HERERO-LAND . 17th Jan.1904 -- 15th Aug. 1906
- OMARURU . . 17th Jan.1904 -- 12th May 1905
- ONGANJIRA . 9th April 1904
- WATERBERG . 24th May 1904 -- 15th Aug. 1906
- OMAHEKE . . September 1904 -- June 1905
- GROSS-NAMALAND 27th Oct. 1904 -- 25th May 1906 18th -- 26th Dec. 1908
- FAHLGRAS . 29th Oct.1905
- TOASIS . . 17th Dec.1905
- KARAS-BERGE . (The Regulations state KAR-ASBERGE).30th Aug.1904 -- 22nd Apr. 1906 12th Oct. 1906
- GROSS-NABAS . 2nd -- 4th Jan. 1905
- AUOB . . 29th Nov. 1904 -- 17th May 1905
- NARUDAS . . (11.11.1908 identified form instead of NURUDAS).
- 10th -- 11th March 1905
- NOSSOB . . 25th Mar. 1905 -- 8th Apr. 1905
- ORANJE . . 28th June 1905 - 30th Aug. 1906
- KALAHARI . 1907
- KALAHARI . 1908
