Genesis of a fake ss edelweiss : life and death

[Zeller]

A while ago i posted a strange edelweiss which i got incidentally from a source of usually good stuff for the price of a standard wh edelweiss. i didn't know it had the runes before it was brought to me, and although it looked like a fantasy item, i decided to drink the back-up story and i took it. As you can see from first picture, it looked like a modified metal edelweiss but at that time i didn't dare to remove it from the cloth and i put it in a display case without a clear classification good or bad. THen, after few months all of a sudden, i notice that the corrosion looked worse. i took it out of the case and i cleaned it a bit and...it looked really bad,like it was made of some copper league. i partially removed the cloth and the back was even worse. My opinion is that some nice guy used some acid to made it look right and old but didnt use a basic one to stop the process, which continued and attracted my attention.

the edelweiss before



the edelweiss after

[besslein]

oh,this one is realy bad,

[Zeller]

I know. I fell in the trap coz i refused to imagine that someone may arrive to do fakes of a metal edelweiss for few euro(the most common "scam" is to sell bW or austrian edelweiss for wh ones) and when i got it, i thought it may be some personalization. The guy was smart enough to use an acid and also sew a cloth, so i couldnt see the back of the insignia. In the end, it was my fault, but these are good lessons indeed.

[besslein]

next time if you want buy something for you,look to e-stand here on forum,from time to time you can find realy nice and for sure original insignia in good price

[Zeller]

I became a member for that reason and i got a couple of good deals already
Regarding the edelweiss, i was superficial because the supplier was a guy that from time to time find some stuff for me (nothing really rare but genuine) from another neighbour country (former yugoslavia).

[besslein]

I hope you have pay for this shi.....few euros ,so its not so bad,but I think better stay with him in contact,may be he find somethings realy good.

[Zeller]

15 or 18 euro, not much but enough to pay the lesson .

I hardly think he's gonna show up with a Handschar fez or a Prinz Eugen collar insignia (i'm joking), but from time to time you can still do some good deal

[besslein]

you can never know, a friend of me buy last week a very nice waffen ss
camo smock for few euros.

[Christian_GJR3]

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sorry for your bad luck, but you could have seen from a blink of an eye, that the bended stem is incorrect...

[Zeller]

Yep, you're right. After I got it home. I didn't see it before it was here. As I said above, the guy always had good stuff in the few deals we had before. Maybe it was his technique. Anyway, the edelweiss is still here as a reminder : never be hurry, don't trust anyone and be careful with odd things from Poland (especially if from the bay ...)