Real Knight Cross photos or not ???

[REDVIPER]

Hello

Before I set this two autograph photos of the estand I want ask if the was original pre war or after postwar , the autograph was postwar but I think the photos was original one and hope the community can help me with opinions

Regards Thomas

[Waffenreich]

Just my opinion, but I have my doubts about the pic on the right. The paper certainly appears to be of the period, but there's no doubt that original paper has been used on repro pics. The two things that bother me are the flaw in the pic coming from his button below the RK and the series of small rounded corner squares (most obvious is over his EKI) running vertically up the pic each being evenly spaced like what you see on a film reel. These appear to have been on the negative used to print the pic. Could be original, but I'd be cautious.