Weird "65" EK1 w/ horizontal pin

[jani_tiainen]

Attached pics of the weirdest EK1 I have seen. So far the makers number and construction looks good...but the pin is horizontal...

Does anybody have "65" for comparison?

Jani

[jani_tiainen]

reverse

...sorry about the quality of pics...

Jani

[Peter Wiking]

Year number looks very strange and wrong. Swastica is rather flat.
A 65 cross does not look like this. Either front or back.

Cheers.
Peter Wiking

[KJV]

Ek

Hi,
here's my 65 marked cross. This is a good one.
Regards,
Kevin

[KJV]

Back

[Michael Kuligowski]

Like Peter said - wrong overall shape of the cross... strange numbers, sfastika... ugly finish... something stinks here

[KJV]

Hi,
as you can see on mine, the swastika arms are thicker, it is higher and the tips of the numbers have the balled tips.
regards,
Kevin

[DaveJ]

I had an opertunity to look at a couple of the Flock EK1s that were marked 65, but the mark was in a little box just like the L/15

Dave

[jani_tiainen]

Thanks for input friends!

I see the differences and mine is fake as I suspected. I am always interested in tracking fakes and trying to find the history of its manufacture. This is again type I have never seen before... and why has somebody faked good quality as this...and attached horizontal pin

Jani

[Blitz]

Lucky for us fakers always wan't get the value as high as possible.. There is just one problem; It only works on the ignorant and the foolish, luckily we are neither. I checked this piece with Jani in Tampere. I instantly noticed that the makers mark was identical to the one on my piece, but the numbers and the swaz were not right. Guess i was on the right track..