SS Dog Tag

[HD1450]

What's your opinion on this tag , apparently the red crayon was rubbed on it too highlight it , these are the only pics i have off this tag , your help greatly appreciated

[Paul D]

Infanterie Gun Ausbilding und Ersatz Btl , haven't seen one to this unit before but with the high number i'm sure Matt will have one in his archive , looks okay to me.

[octavian]

First looks i am not seeing immediate red flags here. looks good HD

[HD1450]

Thanks guy's , hope matt will give it the

[Matt L]

That roll number is pretty high LOL The unit was created in 7.43 so I find it pretty hard to believe more than 12000 men went through in just 21 months. Even if it's unissued stock disc as that's a huge number of extras to make. It might be that the same roll was continued from its previous incarnation as SS-IG Ersatz-Bataillon Hamburg I guess.

But I don't know- there's nothing clearly wrong, but nothing that seems particularly good to me either. It's definitely not one of those that to me just looks real- the opposite in fact is the case; I immediately didn't care for it and started looking for obvious problems. Couldn't find any though- other than the perhaps high number and the different stamp set 'E'; in looking through the fakes I have images of, I noticed rather a few with mixed stamps- so the fakers have read people saying that real ones do sometimes show substitute letters. So it's now no longer a good feature, unfortunately.

My opinion is that unless you can find a 100% provably authentic example that matches this one, or it's really cheap and worth a risk, it's not one I'd buy.

[HD1450]

That roll number is pretty high LOL The unit was created in 7.43 so I find it pretty hard to believe more than 12000 men went through in just 21 months. Even if it's unissued stock disc as that's a huge number of extras to make. It might be that the same roll was continued from its previous incarnation as SS-IG Ersatz-Bataillon Hamburg I guess.

But I don't know- there's nothing clearly wrong, but nothing that seems particularly good to me either. It's definitely not one of those that to me just looks real- the opposite in fact is the case; I immediately didn't care for it and started looking for obvious problems. Couldn't find any though- other than the perhaps high number and the different stamp set 'E'; in looking through the fakes I have images of, I noticed rather a few with mixed stamps- so the fakers have read people saying that real ones do sometimes show substitute letters. So it's now no longer a good feature, unfortunately.

My opinion is that unless you can find a 100% provably authentic example that matches this one, or it's really cheap and worth a risk, it's not one I'd buy.

Thank you Matt for your valued opinion

[Matt L]

Any time