Deschler SS skull

[willysproject]

Hi,

What are you opinions on this skull? It looks like it has been repainted one with silver paint?
The material isn't CupAl. Can it be zinc?

Kind regards,
Gerd V

[willysproject]

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[BenVK]

That's a weird one, not sure what to make of it.

[john mack]

skull

I like it , it has been squeezed a bit over time , but it has really nice character, everything else seems to look proper as well to me

[SScollector]

Cast repro

[john mack]

Skull

Ouch ! I was caught out there on this one. May i ask what is indicating that this was cast . I did not see anything that was representative of a cast copy.what am i missing ?

[castle]

from the 3rd pic it does look like zinc under silver paint. would have to have it in hand and check with other zinc examples to be sure. 1/52 mark looks right. and proper detail between teeth and nose..chris has a pretty good eye on these im not sure..tom

[SScollector]

The best give-away would be the upper-left crossbone. It is too narrow.
This is common amongst the repros that I have seen of this "M1/52" marking variation, (which only appears on zinc original skulls).
The other repros that I have seen were also heavily pitted like this one.
Details above the teeth are also wrong.

Best, Chris

[john mack]

Skull

Ah , interesting , i thought from the pics that the pitting was lifting marks from the zinc to the silver , i also asumed that the roughness of the skull was attributed to wear and tear , i need to start looking much closer at the fine details.