PZ wrapper stettin 43

[Richard P]

If you are happy with it, is the really important. I think the problem will be if you try to sell it in the future.

Eugenio has probably hit the nail on the head, the trouble will start when you go to sell. It is hard enough keeping track of the original wraps and their various makers, custom tailoring, foreign made, field made, and other various types of originals.

I do not know of anyone who has made an exhaustive accounting of all the many fakes that come and go over the years, and I mean the years since the second world war ended. There are also those that are one-of-a-kind copies. Most collectors check out the latest fakes and then move on to the next original. That would be great if someone out there would collect only fakes wraps and then write a book on them. Until that time, this forum is the best help you will get.

Many panzer collectors have rows of wraps hanging up that they can pull out and compare to one such as yours to...that is where many come up with the statements they type out here. We tend to chronicle the originals, as opposed to the fakes. There are still original types of wraps being discovered that were thought to be non-existent until either a photo, or an unknown wrap itself turns up.

Some of us may even have a Janke they picked up to have for comparison or from poor photos (me). I have one that I dig out for times like this. This jacket has many of the classic Janke traits that are not found on originals, I can state rather accurately that this is a Janke, or a copy of one.

Richard