SS 8 Years service medal

[Heinrich Fuchs]

I have a feeling this one is not genuine, based on several small things that I can find. Anyone concur or am I completely wrong in my assessment?


http://i.imgur.com/O6ls4n7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/A4WuCD8.jpg

http://imgur.com/arWgRtv

http://imgur.com/3GXJADf

[Tom Yanacek]

I have a feeling this one is not genuine, based on several small things that I can find. Anyone concur or am I completely wrong in my assessment?

Hello & welcome to the forum,

I agree with your assessment. Does not look like an original IMO. But wait for more opinions. Antonio will know for certain.

Best regards,
Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

I am uploading your images to the server so that the pictures do not vanish from the thread.

[Tom Yanacek]

two more images:

[Heinrich Fuchs]

two more images:

Thank you, and thank you for the welcome

[Antonio Scapini]

Welcome to the best forum.

About the medal you posted it is not an accepted original pattern.

[Heinrich Fuchs]

Welcome to the best forum.

About the medal you posted it is not an accepted original pattern.

Thank you Just a shame to start off the forum career with this, but likewise glad to have it confirmed.

[THE WAFFEN-SS]

looks like a Petz & Lorenz to me

[THE WAFFEN-SS]

The flash washes the details out of the medal and the whole thing is taken from very bad angles.
I say it is original

[Christopher G.]

Mr. Waffen-SS,

This is not an original...it is a obvious fake.

Regards,
Chris G.

[THE WAFFEN-SS]

Personally I would like to know the size, weight and see more and better pictures before saying fake.
Looking at only 4 poor quality pictures before saying it is fake is not taking a balanced look at the medal.
Pictures in natural daylight, in focus and straight on would help me.... How do I post pictures to this forum by the way? from my computer???

[Ian Hulley]

How do I post pictures to this forum by the way? from my computer???

You need to either pay $45/year to become an association member ... OR host the photos on an external site (like Photobucket for e.g.) and then past the link into the [img] tags on the post as you make it. Please do not then delete the pics later as it renders the thread useless.

Cheers, Ian.

[Antonio Scapini]

This medal is 100% not a proven wartime period.
There was a link to may 1945 bring back vet piece, but when I started to search about this link there were less proofs than what I thought.
So this medal was not original and it still is not original.

[THE WAFFEN-SS]

What link?