Zimmermann marked RZM 499/41 skull

[GEORGE]

well it certainly looks good from the front peter,i for one havnt seen a 499 with these pin attachments, late war? george w

[Stirlitz wiedzial]

Yes I think this is,, late war,, Zimmerman
Was founded on a positions late 1944 Division SS Viking

[GEORGE]

very nice to have provinence with any item,especially wiking,could it be foreign made with these pins? maybe carlsson can tell us, i have read his replies both here and on another forum and appears to know his TKs. george w

[Anders S]

The skull was made with both pin attachments. The "cone attatchment" is late war as I understand it.
Here's a Zimmermann set that I used to own.

[Stirlitz wiedzial]

I think the SS skull makers sometimes change their technology and some details in skulls constructions.
Maybe in case of this skull subcontractors dosent have flat prongs but have round prongs.
The show must go on and they used round prongs to continue produce of skulls.
Maybe if they have crazy glue in this time they used glue to fastened skull to caps (:
Thanks Peter

[Stirlitz wiedzial]

Anyway Anders you set is very nice.
Maybe im not a SS eagle fan but skull ho ho ho is a pleasure to see it
Thanks Peter

[Stirlitz wiedzial]

Guys my last world
Face of Anders skull and face of my skull are simmilar like standardt Zimmerman skulls face.
Face of Ado skull loks more like Deschler type skull.
And of course is painted.
Strange
Thanks Peter

[BenVK]

Zimmermann produced skulls and eagles with different prong attachments and from various different materials, cupal, aluminium etc.

The example posted at the start of thread seems to be an original but I would guess, maybe re-painted.

[Eric Zentner]

It looks ok to me here is mine with missing prongs.

Eric

[carlsson1982]

Zimmermann made two different prong attachments for his skulls but the front stays the same.