Originally posted by 718design
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Thanks for the high quality photos, but I'm actually more concerned now.
I'm not keen on the colour and texture of the base metal on the reverse.
I think your badge height is underestimated a bit since you measured from the central wreath whereas it's more conventional to measure a badge's overall greatest height, but nevertheless the width seems a bit small while the weight is high.
Also, that excellent closeup of the swastika edge shows a very concerning feature -- an indented groove. While a one-sided ridge could be expected in a struck badge, that indented groove couldn't possibly result from die striking and I suspect could only come from a casting process.
Having said that perhaps Hubert could look very closely on his Souval in that same region and tell us what he sees there.
So far, my overall impression is a very high quality cast reproduction of a Viennese Souval with Lüdenscheid-like hardware applied and a spurious Berlin maker mark -- certainly covers a lot of geography!
Originally posted by 718design
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And the fact that it looks much better than a worse, bendable S-Boat repro, unfortunately doesn't prove this one to be real...only that it's much better made. And it really is well made...frighteningly so. Why someone would choose to go to all that effort and then add a maker mark so obviously wrong is hard to understand.
Best regards,
---Norm
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