ss cloth skull for review

[scotty1418]

I had a couple collectors online review this elsewhere but wanted to give it a 2nd run - I'd certainly appreciate any thoughts about potential buying prices if confirmed original...

Thanks!

[coogan]

This will make it easier to look at.

[coogan]

Here's a site that may help you compare to some originals

http://ssrelics.net/ss-insignia.htm

#2 could be a match

[Ian Hulley]

As I already told you ... the skull is a fine original.

Ian

[chahler]

Eagle fake
Skull original

[wehl]

Eagle fake
Skull original

in fact i think eagle is good too just made outside Reich,i have never seen in my last 30 years of collecting one like this labeled as know fake.

[chahler]

in fact i think eagle is good too just made outside Reich,i have never seen in my last 30 years of collecting one like this labeled as know fake.

Lets agree to disagree , just add picture of the know ss fakes eagles
Please follow the link below
http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ss-uni...s-fake-639042/

[wehl]

Lets agree to disagree , just add picture of the know ss fakes eagles
Please follow the link below
http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/ss-uni...s-fake-639042/

i know all this repros ,the one that started this thread is a bit different as the one in middle on left in group shot of six ,show use and age which is hard to fake in fact .

[TK GUY]

Tk

The skull is a nice original. Price - between $400 - $600, IMO. I would shoot for the lower end of that, but people who are redoing a cap will often pay a high price for an original, used skull. Regarding Coogan's link in post #3, while a useful page, the skulls shown there are officer flat wire skulls. The skull you posted for review was never made in flat wire and that is why you do not see an exact match on that page.

Paul

[Gary Wood]

The eagle is a older fake (60-70s) as already stated ....not an original made outside Reich story ....

The tk is original but it looks like it very frayed around the edges so would limit its use to display only and that would effect the value.

[coogan]

The skull is a nice original. Price - between $400 - $600, IMO. I would shoot for the lower end of that, but people who are redoing a cap will often pay a high price for an original, used skull. Regarding Coogan's link in post #3, while a useful page, the skulls shown there are officer flat wire skulls. The skull you posted for review was never made in flat wire and that is why you do not see an exact match on that page.

Paul

Yeah I realized that after I posted it, but was also trying to point him to some self learning.

Were the flatwire skulls made on different machines with different punching cards or whatever they used at the time ?

[TK GUY]

Tk

Yeah I realized that after I posted it, but was also trying to point him to some self learning.

Were the flatwire skulls made on different machines with different punching cards or whatever they used at the time ?

Hi Coogan,

To my knowledge, the flat wire skulls and the EM versions, of the same skull pattern, were made on the same machines, using different materials for the different versions. Usually, you can find a flat wire skull pattern in an EM cloth version, most likely made by the same manufacturer, IMO. However, I would differ to Gary Wood or Bob Hritz on the manufacturing process of flat wire vs. the standard cloth.

Thanks,

Paul

[coogan]

Thanks for the info.

[scotty1418]

Appreciate everyone's feedback!

Now to hopefully seal the deal...