I've seen some of these Gahr SS marks fraudulently applied to Viking ship brooches but this one I came across by accident on a plain brooch recently. Either they were practicing how to fake the application of the infamous "GAHR" stamp kulturzeichen or they really messed it up. Surely this would not enter circulation if genuine. Very sloopy or, a crook was practicing his trade. Opinions?
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that is not a Gahr mark per say.... It is the SS items approved by the head of the 'Culture' unit,,or what ever you'd translate it is..
Early on when Otto Gahr was alive they used a combo of the WW1 hallmarks and a 'Otto Gahr Munich' stamp..
By the start of the war he was dead,,small items no longer needed to be hallmarked [most weren't].
So IF approved by the SS Culture society it would have this mark and sometimes the maker,, - Gahr, etc.
This triple over stamp?!?,,whats the rest of the piece look like?Last edited by Gaspare; 04-27-2017, 03:03 PM.
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