Teno Wound Award

[rfleming32]

I am not a document savvy but I thought this for discussion if it is of any interest. TeNo award and it is late war. Maybe wounded as the Allies pressed closer.

[Hank C.]

This pre-print format is well loved by fakers, I'm not sure what the heck all the detail about the wound is for, and I'm really not loving the "Bach" signature, since it looks like a 5th grader signed it.

All in all, I wouldn't want it in my collection.

EDIT: Also, by 1945 most people making & giving awards would know there wasn't a 'matt-weiss' wound badge.

best
Hank

[Tom Yanacek]

I also believe that this document is a fake for the reasons mentioned by Hank. Additionally, this document should have the ink stamp of the Reserve-Lazarett, not a TENO stamp. It also looks as if some Druckerei/Bestellnummer data has been eradicated from the bottom of the document with typewritter white-out.

Best regards,
Tom

[Simon O.]

This one is bad alright. The big Z WB doc as Hank says is well used by fakers. The person doing this one had enough savvy to try and obliterate to printers info at the bottom which would give away which wehrkreis this style belonged to (but i'm going off memory there).
In any case, the over explanation of losing his hand to a UXB is another red flag but the nail in the coffin as Tom points out is the use of a TENO stamp by a hospital. The old WWI WB term of 'mattweiss' is also a no no

[rfleming32]

That was interesting and I am glad I put it up. Thank you for the review. Thankfully I have nothing in this piece. Just struck me as odd and interesting. Now I know why the odd and it is intersting to learn a little more about fakes.