Stunning War Medals! Nazi Medal! WWI Medal!

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I found a house that was being gutted! Everything from the house was being tossed in a big dumpster. I grabbed all the bags I could find and a few boxes. I just got done looking though all of them. Out of the 300 pounds of junk - I found these 4 pieces of treasure!

First I found the 1958 Israeli 93.5% Silver medal, I assumed that was all I would find so I posted the story to Treasurenet at around 8:30pm today. Little did I know I would find more treasure in those bags! Next thing to pop out was the World War One New York "Field Service Medal", I was happily surprised, another medal, awesome! And in the little box with the World War One medal was a little silver medal labeled "Putting Shot" (whatever that means).

I looked through more bags but didn't find much more than a few clad coins, the occasional wrist watch, pocket knife, there was even an old Zippo lighter. As the next to last bag was almost empty I saw a little black box in the bag that I didn't see at first becasue it was black and blended in with the bag. I took it out and I saw an Iron Cross emblem painted on the top. I thought..."Could this be a...?" I opened the box... staring right up at me was something I thought I would never ever in a million years ever see - a WWII German Iron Cross Medal, complete with Nazi Swastika. I was stunned. Stunned! I had not been this stunned in a looong time. I have never found a Nazi artifact like this in my entire life, to think this was once owned by a German during the war - I love this sort of find, becasue there was no way in a hundred years I could afford to buy one of these - and now I don't have to! I love war medals! :D


The 4 Medals:
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The German Iron Cross Medal:
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The WWI New York Guard Service Medal:
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The Israeli 1958 93.5% Silver Medal
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Sterling "Putting Shot" Medal:
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A 1968 Zippo Lighter with "Schaefer" logo and an "Elgin" wrist watch:
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Some of the Junk I had to go though:
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Congrats on the great finds.
 

Nice picking, good finds!
 

Man , You scored some great stuff - the medals are amazing ! the Elgin watch is cool too (1930's 40's ?)
 

There is some sort of marking under the clasp, maybe a "3".

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I looked at the link above for the German Cross - I couldn't find any mention of what the metal composition is -
any ideas ?
 

It does appear to be a 3 which was the marking used by Wilheim Deumer, Ludenscheid Germany. The Deumer Company is still in business today.

History « Deumer

Steve
 

I looked at the link above for the German Cross - I couldn't find any mention of what the metal composition is -
any ideas ?

The metals used were Tomback or Zinc, and a few were silver.

Steve
 

I am glad Aquila brought this post back up to our attention. I don't remember seeing these finds in 2014, but they are all amazing. You would think people- relatives or professional house cleaners alike- would have more savy than to just bag up everything for the trash collectors. You must have your own private museum by now. :)
Best of Luck,
Phil
 

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