Swastika Paperweight, RZM M5/100

[Rylan]

Hi Guys,

I was offered this, but I haven't seen anything like it. It is apparently marked RZM MS/100, but I am assuming the S is actually a 5.

M5/100 = Ernst Schneider, Lüdenscheid

Any ideas if it is authentic or not, It seems kind of odd that they would mark a paperweight with RZM... but I am not very familiar with this sort of thing. Any help is appreciated.

[Rylan]

RZM mark

[Rylan]

A picture of the crack in the back of the paperweight

[castle]

are you sure its a 5....symbols are usually marked with a 3 such as rzm m3/100.

[Rylan]

are you sure its a 5....symbols are usually marked with a 3 such as rzm m3/100.

No I'm not sure, the picture is a bit hard to see. He said it was marked MS/100, so I thought maybe it was a "5". I asked him to look at it again.

[Xray]

Engraving does not appear to be very good, almost looks like it was done freehand with a dimestore engraver, could be wrong.
Perhaps other pics of the hallmark from different angles/light conditions would help.
Also, the size of the RZM hallmark seems kind of overtly large, the largest I have ever seen on anything if I am gauging size correctly.

[Rylan]

Thanks for the replies, but I think I will let this one go. Apparently he was already offered $170 for the paperweight, I told him to go for it

[sgstandard]

Paperweight?

It sure looks like a "3" to me, and I'll go out on a limb and say I believe it's a good piece. As pointed out, "M3' IS the correct designation for symbols. Fakers that bother to cast an item such as this virtually NEVER cast it with insignias on both sides. They almost always cast it, and mount it directly to a plaque, marble, etc. It's broken anyway, but if it IS real, it's probably pretty rare.

[Von Hoth]

I'm telling you guys, whoever designs a "home chemistry test kit" for this hobby will get the noble peace prize.

We need a testing kit that can tell us what kind of metal alloy the parts are and see if the metal types that are blended in there are consistent to 1940's material.

Of course, then the fakers will just start making home batches of perfectly blended metal alloy to build their stuff.

this piece looks interesting.