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
the edelweiss before
the edelweiss after
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.
a friend of me buy last week a very nice waffen ss 
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