MKs on E-Stand

[Robert J.D.]

From what I can see, silver MKs on right appear to be reproductions. Any other opinions?

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=471378

[Tom Yanacek]

Hello Robert,

I agree! Both of the silver Mother Crosses on the right side are obvious fakes.

Best regards,
Tom

[Woolgar]

They certainly dont look good from those pics

Nick

[jabnus]

Right two are fake, also the ribbon doesn't look too hot...Might be the light but i don't like it in these pictures...

[A H]

The top right one doesn't look good, but the pictures are really bad. We need much better ones

Adam

[Silesien]

No further pictures are necessary,- you have already been told by tyanacek which ones are obvious definite fakes. The pictures as posted are quite adequate to tell which ones are original, & which ones are not. The upper right fake is the exact repro that used to sold by Delta International of Lafayete, California, with the too-wide white border.

[Tom Yanacek]

The attached image will highlight some of the flaws of these two fakes.

Best regards,
Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

[quote=jabnus;4302732]Right two are fake, also the ribbon doesn't look too hot...Might be the light but i don't like it in these pictures...[/quote]



In my opinion, I see no problem with the ribbon on the cross in the center.

Best regards,
Tom

[Robert J.D.]

The ribbon on the center cross looks good to me.

[jabnus]

Hi, i said it didn't look very hot in this particular picture. Recently i finally wrote for the book the chapter on the MK ribbon and also handled a few fake ribbons that are now on the market. One characteristic of some of those is that they are a bit more firm/solid than the original ribbons.

Since the two crosses on the right are not good and the cross in the middle has lost a lot of it's silver finish on the front, i was surprised to see such a firm ribbon, that looks as if it has not been folded/worn/used as much as the cross. Maybe it's just the light, but i wouldn't buy that cross on this picture.


The two on the right are so obvously fake they wouldn't fool a blind man, there are much more dangerous fake crosses around!

best regards,
Gaston

[A H]

No further pictures are necessary,- you have already been told by tyanacek which ones are obvious definite fakes. The pictures as posted are quite adequate to tell which ones are original, & which ones are not. The upper right fake is the exact repro that used to sold by Delta International of Lafayete, California, with the too-wide white border.

'I have already been told'

Watch your tone with me please. I can not see the picture very clearly on my pc screen thats why I asked for more. If everyone can see them clearly and they are fake fair enough.

Adam

[Silesien]

You watch YOUR tone with me, sweet pea,,, why in the world can't you see the pictures clearly on your screen,,, ??!! my pictures are perfectly clear,,, perhaps you need a better computer screen or perhaps you need new glasses, I don't see anybody else whining about how unclear the pics are. So if you couldn't see the pics clearly on your pc, why didn't you just say that the pics were unclear to you ?? instead of just blurbing 'we need much better ones'. What you need to do, even with not being able to see too good, is to read previous posts in any thread, in this case if you would have, you'd have read the post where a firm determination of originality had been made in post #2. I hope you can clearly see the images of post #7 which point out the flaws of these fakes, & if you can't see these clearly on your pc,, please let us know.