WH Parachutist Badge - Need Opinions

[Colorado]

A perspective new member sent me these photos of his WH para badge. These are not my area, so I throw it out to the experts here. He and I thank you in advance.

[Colorado]

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[rocket]

Everything is wrong.Not good.Sorry.

[Joseph D'Errico]

Greetings Jeff,


Heer Para's can be tricky for sure with so many well done fakes. I don't care for this example; the points that jump off the page for me when I first looked at it were the catch, rivets, wings on the national eagle ( looks like batman wings from the reverse), makers mark, finish.Well ........ I guess I see alot that I don't care for.

Cheers,
Joe

[Frank Heukemes]

Hi Jeff,

As the others pointed out, nothing ok there. The totally wrong eagle´s head (on the diving eagle) is also another good reference point to easily detect this type fake.

[Colorado]

I am not a collector of these and I suspected as well. Thanks for the help. I willl encourage my friend to join up. When I first joined, I shed a lot of tears on my fakes, but now am much wiser.