Fake WSS Panzer visor or my lucky day?

[AndersB]

How about this alleged WSS Panzer visor that I've been offered to buy?

Do I run for my life or what?

The visor looks and feels like thin black plastic, but I do have an original very-late-war Army doctor's cap (bought on this site)with a very similar peak. Is the Alkero-logo wartime, post-war or fake? What about the eagle?

I let the pix (which could be better, of course) speak for themselves. Enough for a verdict?

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more pix coming...

[AndersB]

Pix 2

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[AndersB]

Pix 3

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[AndersB]

Final pic, Any opinion welcome! THX

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[BenVK]

Run for your life!

[enorepap]

Hallo AndersB

In my opinion, a cap completely rebuilt without much precision:

- The piping, even if of a type used sometimes on original caps, is mounted in a rather rough way;
- The band of velvet seems as a very short foreskin;
- Never seen a full stirndruckfrei system on Alkero;
- The lining is visibly sewn in a very approximate way (not connected to the apparent restoration of the sweatband);

- The label (the highlight):

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ht=alkero+logo

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ghlight=alkero

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...3&postcount=81

I think there's enough to conclude

[AndersB]

Thanks. Yes, it's pretty crude. I assume that the eagle is fake too(?)

[DonC]

It looks to me like someone gave up abut 3/4 of the way through a rebuild...

Don

[viva_giulio]

lovely stirnduchfrei system. Pekuro could be proud!


i'm sad... this is real bad.

[Ian Hulley]

The eagle may be an original 3 pin unmarked Assmann, as found on the 'Alteste' fakes.

Ian

[AndersB]

THX! Interesting: I assume that by "alteste" you mean "oldest", i.e. early fakes. Were these original unmarked Assmann perhaps availble cheaply back in the 70:s (or whenever the first fakes started to show up)?

I just this eagle a thread of it's own: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...75#post5505575

The eagle may be an original 3 pin unmarked Assmann, as found on the 'Alteste' fakes.

Ian

[Ian Hulley]

There is a whole range of fakes which had the words 'Alteste Berlin' on the sweat diamond, see the stickie thread at the top of this forum.

On the clearer shot I believe the eagle is a fake.

Ian

[AndersB]

Thanks for your comments. I ran, of course.