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Originally Posted by Andy Saunders
This item has just turned up and I'd appreciate any thoughts on it.
Not sure about its provenance, or whether it is genuine - although there is much about it that feels 'right'. But it could be a very clever fake.
It is in a slightly tatty presentation box, with a gold embossed drop-tail (early pattern) Luftwaffe Eagle. The blue velvet lined box has a leather lifting tab to lift the heavy plaque out of the box.
Thoughts, anyone?
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In my opinion, it's a fake, with several issues:
•It's intention is not clear. (For something that official, it should be)
•It's unspecific, as who wants to congratulate whom for what. If it's from HG to JG53, it shouldn't have the Pik-As emblem on top. It should have the Lw eagle. And then the whole thing for just
one promotion of whom...?
•The layout is bad. It's not balanced. The used font look somewhat "forced"
•There is a severe typographical/ grammatical error: "Das offiziers - JG53". Mind the low key "o" of "offiziers". In German that should be written with a capital/ upper key "O", being a "Hauptwort/ Substantiv". Beside that the word is either incomplete or wrong (Die Offizier
e des JG53 or Das Offizier
skorp)
•Some of the words don't sound right (Beglückw
ünschung, Das offiziers - JG53)
This reminds me a bit of the faked Hitler diaries in the 80s. But then, this too is only my opinion.