Waffen SS Debica Disc

**TCL** · 08-24-2013, 05:14 AM

How do you call it, selfmade.
Thomas

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 08-24-2013 05:14 AM

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**Wagriff** · 08-24-2013, 05:22 AM

It looks brand new and engraved with a hand engraver, to my eyes.

**TCL** · 08-24-2013, 05:37 AM

hand engraved - yes, brand new by the flash light.

**BOB COLEMAN** · 08-24-2013, 05:43 AM

Not something I would want in my collection. Even if it was genuine to the period, it would always require too many explanations.

**TCL** · 08-24-2013, 06:03 AM

@BOB COLEMAN actually, you are right.

Life winners end up the same way as losers, I think that´s realy shit

**Matt L** · 08-24-2013, 03:08 PM

No, not a hand engraver- the raised edges show it was punched with a flat tool like a screwdriver but smaller for some lines, and the multiple strikes for the curved bits with a smaller still such tool. The issue I see is that the maker misspelled 'Depot', and '05803' is not a normal number- I can't say I've ever seen a '0' at the beginning of one. The other Debica discs I've seen are from Kompanien, not the base unit. So unless there's some significant reason to believe this one is real, I don't see how it could ever be above some significant suspicion since field made discs automatically are...

**Gunny Hartmann** · 08-24-2013, 03:40 PM

Not keen at all!.....

**TCL** · 08-24-2013, 06:14 PM

OK,mistake, I translated hand engraved, done with a tool. This disk was bought in the market of a big military Forum and the disk was acepted. Of course not everybody want to have this disk in his collection.
I want to compare it with a german magazin from 1939 it is a strong paper, if you touch the same magazine from 1940 it is like silk.
I am not going to sell the disk, I just wanted to show it, its a part of my seeing of history. This disk was made, when the german troops in the east where running towards west.
About misspelling, I can sent you a doc where it is writen "Grenatier", you want to see some documents with undercrossed from 1900 and than you expect in 1944 a high class school training,
look at the Internet today, about misspelling in your language.

**bigmacglenn** · 08-24-2013, 06:24 PM

Depot is misspelled "Debot"...always a red flag when they get their German wrong...You'll have a tough time convincing a seasoned collector of the originality of this disc, in my opinion...
cheers, Glenn

**TCL** · 08-24-2013, 06:43 PM

@ Glenn, I think you are absolute right. But there is no need to convince anybody. I can sell it here on the german mil.market, it was taken for good.
I will show an other disc and than I stop discs, I do not collect them, it´s just to show a part of the time, I even kept my BW Disc.