Spot on: IMPERIAL FAKES!

[tompress]

Not very good?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Imperial-Ger...-/232332011401

[tompress]

More pictures... What should mean "14 Lötig" ?

[streptile]

Not very good?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Imperial-Ger...-/232332011401

...and 52 bids with hours left to go.

[gregM]

...and 52 bids with hours left to go.

I've been watching this also to see where it goes.
I'm afraid that is not going to be very happy.

[Helene]

I would like someones opinion on this guy. Week after week he seems to come up with the most sought after 'Panzer' collar tabs etc. He has a buy it now price of usually AU$500 approx. His eBay name is mush-head66. One of the items he is currently advertising is a WW2 German Panzer Enlisted Man's Insignia Set ; item # 170843451660, on eBay Australia. Are these for real (or does he have a great workshop) I would like to hear someone else's feedback. These eBay fraudsters are lousy scoundrels ( putting it politely)

Ok, don’t know how this comment ended up in this section, ????

[medalnet]

Red Eagle Order Grand Cross

I am not a fan of focusing on fakes, as it is easier to remember the few variations of original (well, if you have access to see them), but here is a typical fake sold during the 80th and 90th. One of the main differences to the real golden originals is the extremely high weight, about 1.5 times that of an original (83.8 grams).

[Helene]

Not very good?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Imperial-Ger...-/232332011401

Looks like it would make a great hair pin

[medalnet]

Michael Autengruber gave a very nice speech on German fakes during the 60th OMSA convention in Houston, TX, last month. https://www.omsa.org/an-overview-on-...s-of-chivalry/

[SergeP]

J. Wagner fake I picked up at Ciney

Here is a J. Wagner double pin fake I picked up at Ciney this year

[Brian L.]

The Verdunkreuz is a fake as well.

[toot]

fakes

my GOD is there nothing that is or has Ben faked!!!

[Helene]

Faking Imperial era

Sad isn’t it toot.

[Helene]

Imperial Fakes

I’ve seen and am sure I have some of these. An old friend would travel to Germany to visit his sister ( now past ) and he would come back with all sorts of bits and pieces from Estate sales, some which were the real deal, but mostly not of military but civil decorations. Why anyone would fake civil awards, for money I guess, but bloody hell they certainly went to a lot of trouble and half the time they were just plain ****ty looking pieces.