Need help with another Narvik Shield

[gebirgaussie]

Found this Narvik Shield on Ebay. I can't explain why, but something looks a bit off with this shield to my eyes. I would appreciate comments from other forum members.
To my eyes the "19" is not sitting quite right. Can anyone tell me, are the edelweiss stem and the rope in the right positions?
Perhaps it is just that the photo has been taken on an odd angle, but everything looks sort of skewed to my eyes. I thought I should post it up here for the opinions of this forum. (Click on link below for photo)

Cheers
Ian

http://gilles1227.homestead.com/item3.html

[Pascal H.]

The picture has been wrongly transformed so that is the reason why it looks very odd. The shield is in fact an original Deumer type shield.

KR
Pascal

[gebirgaussie]

Thanks Pascal. Your help with these is always greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I got outbid, rather rudely I might add, by a sniper in the final 30 seconds of the auction. One of the advantages with this forum is being able to obtain expert advice on an item, but of course this is a double-edged sword, because by posting up information about an Ebay item one is also advertising it to the world. Ian

[Marvin Jeffus]

Sir,

I am the "sniper". I saw this shield on the first day of listing. You need to learn more about bidding and not to bring attention of it to the world. I would suggest if you need help, you should send a pm to one of the moderators and they would likely help. I learned this lesson the first time of posting.

[gebirgaussie]

Hi Marvin,

Thanks for sniping me!

Let me know if you ever want to sell that Narvik. I would be willing to pay you more than you paid for it at auction. The only reason I didn't win it is that my phone line dropped out in the last minute of the auction or I would have easily outbid you. My line always drops out whenever someone else is using Sniper software, as it seems to zap my line somehow and either causes my connection to go into slow motion or stop altogether. I don't use Sniper software and I believe it should be banned, as it gives an unfair advantage to those who use it. You don't see Sniper software being used at offline auctions. Sniper software is a bit like holding the other guy's arms down, leaving you time to swipe the goodies for yourself. I don't see that I need to learn anything about auctions, as I have won a great many items on Ebay and always won them the honest way, without Sniper software...
I've been trying for a Narvik Shield for years but am just about to give up in total frustration. I have almost bought three now for mega bucks and all three have turned out to be fakes. There were so few made during the war. Even a lot of the ones you see for sale these days are actually repros - made during the final days of 1945 and sold to visiting Allies to take back as wartime souvenirs. These can hardly be called genuine originals, although they were produced in the original factories using the original presses. Many do lack the precision and detail of the authentic ones from the earlier and correct period of issue.

Ian

[Marvin Jeffus]

Ian, I do not use the sniper software, did not even know of it's existance till now. If I decide to sell, you will be first. regards, Marvin

[gebirgaussie]

Hi Marvin,
You were lucky because I am fairly sure that there were a few other bidders in those final minutes (up until my line went "snail pace" on me then dropped out altogether). The way the bids from one of the losing bidders kept increasing rapidly, this could only have been the work of sniper software, as it would be impossible for any one person to manually bid that fast repeatedly by using the Ebay forms.
Congratulations anyway! It is a very nice shield that you won - an excellent example of its type - and I am sure you will be very happy with it. Please post up some more pics of it when you have it in your hand.
Cheers
Ian