I don't understand the animosity toward Mr. Maerz for questioning an extremely rare item by asking legitimate questions about it. If the attitude is simply "if you don't like it, don't buy it", then the main purpose of this forum, which is discussion, is circumvented. Is the item in question what it is purported to be? Are the THICK letters in his name merely the doodlings of a schoolboy, or a mistake by a forger who tried to cover a mistake by making the lines thicker? Why the apparent grade discrepancy? Why the change of writing styles? Why on earth does Thorsten even care if a particular item on a particular website is questioned, and why does he want the questioning ended. Questioning this item is NOT an indictment of the seller, as he is a militaria dealer, not a handwriting expert.
And fact is that this booklet is sitting on his website for at least 3 years, if not more - but all of a sudden someone comes along and picks it up...
I am sorry that this came to my attention only after three years. But as soon as it did I tried at least to find some answers - which i got. I wonder why you did not call this item "fishy" (to use your words) already three years ago ...????
I am not of the opinion that one can say that if an item "sits" somewhere for a long time it becomes genuine or not worthy to be questioned. There are new people in the hobby every day and would you have told them, if asked, that it is "fishy"?
Regarding to your reasoning we should close down this forum very fast since it is no good to "put the focus on other peoples mistakes." I wonder why you would say such a thing?
I don't understand the animosity toward Mr. Maerz for questioning an extremely rare item by asking legitimate questions about it. If the attitude is simply "if you don't like it, don't buy it", then the main purpose of this forum, which is discussion, is circumvented. Is the item in question what it is purported to be? Are the THICK letters in his name merely the doodlings of a schoolboy, or a mistake by a forger who tried to cover a mistake by making the lines thicker? Why the apparent grade discrepancy? Why the change of writing styles? Why on earth does Thorsten even care if a particular item on a particular website is questioned, and why does he want the questioning ended. Questioning this item is NOT an indictment of the seller, as he is a militaria dealer, not a handwriting expert.
as you state , why on earth dose thorsten even care ?
that is the question ?
for some reason he dislikes questions or so it seems !
regards ...pavel..
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