Old cross or Medal need help please.

[T Hunter]

Old Cross or Medal seems to be poured , help please.

What do you think this is ? Age? seems to be lead and heavy.Thanks for your time . Mark

 

[T Hunter]

 

[longcut]

similar to the Maltese cross ........... Think I spelled that right ...........

 

[T Hunter]

really heavy

 

[BertC]

What do you think this is ? Age? seems to be lead and heavy.Thanks for your time . Mark

Unique. It's shaped like a Victoria cross but no crown on the front of it. Or it could possibly be a old cross formy from France. That would be my guess.

 

[BertC]

What do you think this is ? Age? seems to be lead and heavy.Thanks for your time . Mark

Heres a link to what I think it might be.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_pattée

 

[T Hunter]

Thanks for all the info.

 

[calisdad]

Back in the '60's and '70's the Maltese or Iron cross was popular 'Bikerware'. Looks like you've found a relic.

 

[Maritime]

Bikers and Hippies and other rebels wore iron crosses (probably cheap to buy only 20 years after WWII) to separate themselves from the Establishment. I guess bikers still do. This is not one of those: it's lead, not an alloy, heavy and irregular and hand-made. The tang or fastener on the back was probably straight at one time. I'm guessing this is the backing to a more elaborate copper cross that went over the front of it, which came off. It's pretty big so I'm guessing it was a bumper for a piece of furniture.

 

[Got_4by4]

Back in the '60's and '70's the Maltese or Iron cross was popular 'Bikerware'. Looks like you've found a relic.

AND.......seeing that you found it on a beach(from the background) it might be a "Surfers Cross".....from wikipedia:

The Surfer's Cross is used by surfers as a talisman to distinguish the surfer from the rest of society. Its origins are in 1960s surf culture and the most common design is based on a German Iron Cross and features a surfer on a board in the middle of the front side of the cross. The German military decoration was co-opted because young surfers would wear their fathers' war trophies as an anti-establishment statement; eventually, the genuine Iron Cross was replaced by one manufactured for that purpose. The famous custom car designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth sold various "surfer accessories" in the 1960s that were based on WW 2 German items, like his "surfer's helmet" that is a plastic copy of a German helmet and he also manufactured his own Surfer's Cross. By 1966 Roth claimed to have sold 51,800 crosses and "that Hitler did a hell of a public relations job for me."