Printed cloth EK1

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Gentlemen,

This is not something I would normally dabble in. I don´t know much about EKs and not a thing about cloth but this turned up today with rather good provinance.

Its very fine printing on "nessle" cloth. This has then been sewn to a green/grey uniform cloth backing.
I have seen pictures of people wearing these but never personally encountered one before.
I would be most grateful for comments from people with more knowledge than myself.

I´ll be posting a duplicate in the cloth forum as well.

Thanks. Skip

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darker

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The back

[Jos L C]

Nice..,all I can say..

I do like the stitching,very typical.

Jos.

[Jim Baker]

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Thanks for the responses guys.

I know this is a difficult one. Indeed it does have a very 3D effect if you look at it long enough.

I suppose the only way to verify this would be some kind of SEM testing.

Skip

[Gerd Becker]

Thanks for the responses guys.

I know this is a difficult one. Indeed it does have a very 3D effect if you look at it long enough.

I suppose the only way to verify this would be some kind of SEM testing.

Skip

I like this one. It really appears to have 3 dimensions and is very nicely made, the print, the stitching and so on... IMO there is a very good chance, that this one is real.

Interesting piece, Skip

best,
Gerd

[Frank Heukemes]

Dear Skip,

I doubt it is good. One can almost tell by the looks of date, beading, reflections, shadow and other details that the image was scanned from a real, metal Iron Cross. It is not an image made by an artist/printer, it is just too good. Look and compare with printed wound badges e.g. and see how rough in detail, shadows, refelctions these are.

[George Stimson]

I'm with Frank. It looks too good (i.e., well made) to be true. As Jim asked, were they capable of such detail (the beading?!) back then?

[Hank C.]

It looks to me like the beading area on the 3 o'clock arm - upper / inner, if that makes sense - is straight, almost exactly like a fake I posted here recently. Whereas the others are all uniformly curved.

[Jim Baker]

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Thanks for all the opinions guys.
So we lean towards fake but are really unsure. I can take that. It came from a good source and he will be getting it back again.

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