Metal skull help please

[hcliffe]

Still learning... how does this one look?

[hcliffe]

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[Military]

It's a bad one.

[besslein]

[Ian Hulley]

It's the same skull as the M5/8 but unmarked.

Ian

[Winkelman]

Good call - and the " 5/8 " is actually still there ..

[Ian Hulley]

Good call - and the " 5/8 " is actually still there ..

That's laptop screens for you, clearly visible on this monitor.

[Eddie]

Agreed not original skull

[hcliffe]

Good call - and the " 5/8 " is actually still there ..

Wow, good call! I can't even see the 5/8 in hand. But with the flash and a zoom...

[Oscha]

I've got the twin brother to this skull. I bought it in Germany when I was 16 years old in a little shop in downtown Trier near Karl Marx Strasse in 1983. It was aged so well I figured it had to be real. These threads ID it as a typical 5/8, but it took a magnifying glass to see it. Goes to show that the fakes have been around for awhile and there can be thousands of them by now.

[maxmin todt]

very bad

[Ian Hulley]

Goes to show that the fakes have been around for awhile and there can be thousands of them by now.

The 5/8's in yellowy coated aluminium have been around in the UK since at least the mid 70's to my certain knowledge. They were sold (as reproductions) from Quartermaster at the Angel (Islington, London) via Exchange & Mart for £1 each and were matched with the 'Pigeon-head' fake eagle.

Ian