Wiking cuff title

[Oscar]

Hi all,

Someone offered me this cuff title. The condition is not the best, ragged sides.
Is it good one?

Best, Rob

[Dr. Strangelove]

No

Whoever offered you that is not a Friend.

[C. Betz]

Cuff Title

No. Key in Wiking cuff title in the Search function. Your cuff title doesn't have the aluminum borders for starters.

Charles Betz

[Oscar]

Whoever offered you that is not a Friend.

You have righ Doc, it's not my friend

Rob

[germanpolice]

wording looks good to me, possible foreign made

[Jørn Schmidt]

Looks like it once had the aluminum borders?

[Oscar]

Lettering at first view looked good to me. Aluminium borders is missing - this things happen. Whats about based material and threads in wording? Any signs of chance???

Rob

[Felix]

Lettering at first view looked good to me. Aluminium borders is missing - this things happen. Whats about based material and threads in wording? Any signs of chance???

Rob

Not a chance in Hell. A strange fake, but a fake.

I am sorry

//Felix

[Gary Symonds]

wording looks good to me, possible foreign made

We know as a historical fact that sometime in 1942 the WSS was freed of the RZM, and could not obtain insignia from whoever or whatever.

Why is it out of the question that this cuff band, if made after 1942, with its believable lettering could not be a theater made piece, or one contracted for with a different maker in Germany?

I cannot imagine any faker turning this out. It would be damned from the beginning for the lack of wire borders.

Why call this much suspicion on your product if you are trying to make a cuff band to deceive?

It sure does not look like it was made last week. It shows either the best artifiical aging of cloth that I have ever seen on the forum, or it really is over 70 years old.

[ValhallaMilitaria]

I find this one to be quite interesting....and agree with the sentiment of the post just below mine...it sure looks 70 years old...if that is artificial aging it is damned good work....the grime, the look all add up for me...its a peculiar anomoly if its a good one. I think it could be a rare variant.

[Rene Chavez]

I also find it interesting it does look like a period foreign or field made cuffband.

Rene Chavez
www.foreignvolunteerlegion.com

[willysproject]

Very interesing IMHO. The embroidery looks like the RZM embroidered text. Foreign made is quite possible to me.

Kind regards,
Gerd V

[Ian Hulley]

It has the same jumbled band weave as the 70's fakes.

Ian

[germanpolice]

If it was mine I would keep it and wait for the photo to turn up of it in wear, as inevitably it will eventually be seen in a photo that's if the CT existed. we see a lot of CT anomalies that have been deemed fake in the past, but eventually turn out to be good

[ValhallaMilitaria]

It has the same jumbled band weave as the 70's fakes.

Ian

I agree about the weave....I like the stitching of the text though...