2 Bundesmarine cap tallies for review

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I know the Blucher is a reproduction but i want to post it purely for research.
The Schulfregatte Gneisenau is a early BUNDESMARINE tally, am I correct?
Thanks all.
D. L.

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[Norm F]

The Schulfregatte Gneisenau tally looks like exactly the same construction as that fake Blücher...looks like they're from the same source.

Best regards,
---Norm

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Just found a posting from 2009 by RPN, (Hope he doesn't mind me using his photo's), from Australia. it would appear that it is a BM tally. Here are 3 photo's. The bottom tally I also have in my collection as well.

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[Norm F]

Hi D.L.,

I see that posting here:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...38#post3285538
and at the time John said he thought the last two were Bundesmarine. I'd be interested to see whether he still thinks so on second reflection. You can see that the construction is quite different between the two.

I suppose it's possible there was a post-war maker of Bundesmarine tallies who also made reproduction wartime tallies as a sideline, but this needs more study and more input from some of our resident collectors.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Frank K]

The Gneisenau is a fake imo. The early BM tallies looks a lot like KM and this does not.

Below is one from a sistership to compare and a real Blücher.

[Frank K]

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