Help on this Flak artillerie badge please!!!

[Gernika81]

Hi forum members. Could you give a look to the photos of the link down here in order to tell me if you think this FAB is a repro or otherwise a real one? It's my first FAB.

Looking carefully at all the details I've noticed that the maker mark have been removed or something like that. There's a photo of the back where yo can see that. What could be the rason to remove a maker mark?

Opinions are wellcome!

Link: http://es.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/kos...?.dir=/6f70re2


Regards.
Ricardo.

[Marc Garlasco]

It is modeled after a zinc Brehmer with a Juncker maker mark. Looks to be a cast fake. Post measurements of the wreath and weight to be sure.
Marc

[Gernika81]

Oh damn! Thanks Marc. I've just bought it. I was told that it has been repared so that was the reason for having been offered it for 50 EUR. I thought something was wrong with it the first time I saw, but as I'm not an expert in this kind of badges I didn't know that it was a fake.

Measurements: width of the ellipse: 44 mm
height: 55 mm from the bottom of the ellipse to the point of intersection of the two wings.
eagles wings' width: 39 mm

mesarures of the swastika: the cross without the arms is 9 mm long and each arm of the swastika is 5 mm long.

lenght of the flak: 46 mm more or less

Sorry I don't have any device to know the weight.

Regards.
Ricardo.

[Marc Garlasco]

I have my measurement charts at home so I can not check until tonight. It is difficult to judge photos, but the softness, lack of some essential details, and the missing half of the gear are very troubling. Look at the top right leaf by the eagle's head - where is it? And the bottom leaves are lacking some veins. Just very soft and not consistent with what you want in a crisp GB Flak badge.
Marc

[John T]

If the fakes were all this obvious...I agree a bad one.