(sorry no pix as yet)
at first glance all looked ok. the blank document had the embossed, wreathed reichsadler lower left -- and the fax signature and brownish eagle and lettering look excellent. ditto the doc's white 'folder' cover with gold / embossed folded wing eagle. (I didn't think to check whether the brown lettering was hand-written or printed.)
BUT, thinking later I realized these things except for the embossing looked like smooth paper, maybe card-stock thickness and no texture.
since I think protocol, laws or whatever called for animal-skin vellum, safe to assume any paper versions are just replicas / fakes? FWIW, tho I claim no Maertzlike knowledge of such things (far from it!) the embossing for its part looked crisp and impressive. also thinkg back, I don't think the document had the slightly rough-looking or deckled edges.
which leads me to ask: assuming there aren't orig. embossing tools out there, would fakers go to the expense of making them for their copies? finally, were plain paper versions made in late war -- or were shedloads of the correct type available 'till the end? many thanks!
at first glance all looked ok. the blank document had the embossed, wreathed reichsadler lower left -- and the fax signature and brownish eagle and lettering look excellent. ditto the doc's white 'folder' cover with gold / embossed folded wing eagle. (I didn't think to check whether the brown lettering was hand-written or printed.)
BUT, thinking later I realized these things except for the embossing looked like smooth paper, maybe card-stock thickness and no texture.
since I think protocol, laws or whatever called for animal-skin vellum, safe to assume any paper versions are just replicas / fakes? FWIW, tho I claim no Maertzlike knowledge of such things (far from it!) the embossing for its part looked crisp and impressive. also thinkg back, I don't think the document had the slightly rough-looking or deckled edges.
which leads me to ask: assuming there aren't orig. embossing tools out there, would fakers go to the expense of making them for their copies? finally, were plain paper versions made in late war -- or were shedloads of the correct type available 'till the end? many thanks!
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