Panzer Collar Tabs - Fake?

[TobyR]

Hi Everybody,

Please could I ask your opinions on these Panzer Collar Tabs. I'm pretty confident they are fake: the skulls aren't offset, i.e. they are bang in the middle; I don't think the piping is right and the glue to the reverse, where the fabric is fixed to the hessian glows under UV.

Thanks for looking.

All the best,
Toby.

[TobyR]

PS Assuming they are fake, please could somebody post some pictures of an original so that I can compare.

Thanks,
Toby.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Toby, I would agree with you about these tabs. I do not like the piping, construction, placement of the deathshead, etc.
Here is a pic of mine, which although I have posted before, you might not have seen?
Cheers, Ade.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Reverse. This one cost me £16 in about 1979

[Hasse.M]

O damn, 16?!

I wish I could turn back time...
Well very good investment

[TobyR]

Adrian and Hasse.M,

Thanks for the confirmation. They're now heading for the repro bin - whoosh!

All the best,
Toby.