SS Burn Salve

[Peter Wiking]

Here you go, a few repros:

Peter Wiking

[Peter Wiking]

One more:

[Peter Wiking]

I know re´enactors want to feel like a German soldier of WW 2 but there has to be a limit. What comes next ? Waffennamt branded toilet paper ?

Peter Wiking

[gefreiter]

I do screen printing part time...

and it is very easy to print on just about any surface once you are set up for it (hence erasers, pencils ect now being produced in quantity). Sometimes when lots of one thing hit the market at once it does not concern me really, it just depends on what the item its (I have seen stacks of gas mask cannisters by the hundred, bails of gas marker flags by the thousand). Stuff like this concerns me because there is no long term collector memory of these items, they just suddenly appear with a story out of thin air. I was always dubious of the SS salve for some reason and never bought any from the European dealers because they seem to stand there with a **** eating grin telling you it was original. For no other reason my instincts told me no...you can ask Bill what he thinks but it might be better if anyone involved in the forensics field to run an analysis of the contents of the cream itself, it might tell you better than anything else what it is. Probably just relabeled hemroid cream...though that might qualify in some respects as burn salve (Another point is that it is actually pretty easy to soak metal tubes like that salve in chemicals to strip off old ink and then relabel them ((remember the old check scam, soak it in solvents to lift off the pen ink and then fill in your own amount?)) Sounds time consuming by western standards but labor is pretty cheap in some parts of the world, you just never know...

Brian

[Brig]

well, here's a rear photo...

[panzerzacker]

I've heard that the reproduction bars of soap have a flaw at the 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions, and that the originals do not. It's suspected that the soap molds survived the war and are being used to produce reproduction soaps by unscrupulous but very clean individuals.
I've also heard that the copies of the infamous SS 'soap on a rope' have been spotted at local shows. You can tell the difference only by the scent--the fakers can't seem to get the correct 'German Leather' perfume.

Erich

...you mean my soap on a rope was fake!?