shooted Erkennungsmarken

**michal19** · 01-27-2019, 08:29 PM

hello what do You think about this bullet hole?does it looks real for You?
regards

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 01-27-2019 08:29 PM

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**BrodieBartfast** · 01-27-2019, 08:33 PM

Be very wary of anything like this. It's very easy for someone to take an otherwise low value EKM out to a shooting range and put a bullet through it. Something similar is being done with First World War pennies, which are shot through and then sold as originals on the likes of eBay. It could be genuine battle damage, of course. But I'd expect to see a lot more warping to the surface of the EKM given the likely velocity of the bullet that struck it.

Regards, B.B.

**Benzeen** · 01-28-2019, 03:43 AM

There’s no way of ever knowing..

**rbminis** · 01-28-2019, 04:12 AM

IMO, small caliber bullet, at close range, (.22, in the back yard).
Ralph.

**BlackCat1982** · 01-28-2019, 09:52 AM

The damage is not easy to judge from these pictures although it does not look to be very recent. Unless I had found it myself I would be sceptical of it's originality. It would likely be a fatal wound if indeed it were original. Sending it to WaSt in Berlin and asking for them to research it might be an option and you might even get it back. But if you did not find it yourself then there is little way of being sure.