Fantacy Piece?

[lanners55]

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[lanners55]

Difficult to know which category to place this in. Anyone seen these before, is it purely a fantasy piece or is there some credibility to it?

I'm assuming it's supposed to be an ink stamp pad.

Best regards,

Simon

[Milton]

I would tend to lean more towards fantasy piece, especially since "Angrieff" is misspelled for "attack". The word is "ANGRIFF" (no "e")...I wouldn't expect such a spelling error on a period engraving, in my honest opinion. The translation is supposed to read "Strength lies not in defense, but in attack". Not to mention, the casting is quite poor, especially in the eagles chest, swastika details, etc.

[jabnus]

Don't like it at all, very bad quality

[CWP]

I agree, not good.

[Thorsten B.]

The eagle has that expression: "Hähä, I´m fake - but maybe you still fall for me ´cause I look cool!"

[JoeW]

Yes, it seems to be very poor quality. But we are talking about 1943 here and quality control was slipping. Perhaps some machinist recently with too much time on his hands. Yet he had the sense to surround Hitler's quote with laurel leaves signifying victory rather than the usual oakleaves. but he misspelled the word and faced Hitler's quote on the bottom.

[PHILBROWN]

old polish fake,i bought one yrs back knowing it was crap, im guessing theres a slight smell of tobacco and the remnands of the contents are very hard to the touch? bet im right,its totally bad mate ,sorry

[Stan]

Fantasy item as you correctly guessed at the beginning.

Stan

[lanners55]

Many thanks Gentlemen, I think we all agree.

As usual, I'm very grateful for all your help and input.

Best regards

Simon