NEED HELP! Grossdeutschland shoulder boards

[Blaine Anthony]

May I have your thoughts on these beautiful Grossdeutschland shoulder boards please??

[Adrian Stevenson]

Original boards, but with fake GD cyphers.

[Blaine Anthony]

How can one tell they are reproduction cyphers?

[octavian]

Poor cast quality fake cyphers

[octavian]

GD Shoulder board

Great discussion on GD cyphers

You can clearly see the contrast

[CBH]

Here is a Original .
Cheers

[Thierry Luypaert]

Hello,

IMO these cyphers are original fourth type cyphers (see Scott Pritchett GD book volume 1 pages 335-338)
The die stamping produced straight sides and wide flanged areas.
Good patina on these less elegant pattern cyphers.

Regards,
Thierry

[all1knew]

Blaine was nice enough to send me some photos for my inspection and I didn't see any indication of being cast, unless there's something I'm missing.

William Kramer

[Larboard]

Blaine was nice enough to send me some photos for my inspection and I didn't see any indication of being cast, unless there's something I'm missing.

William Kramer

These are supposed to be the ones off the shoulder boards in the original post?

[Blaine Anthony]

Poor cast quality fake cyphers

Based off my photos these are nothing close to cast. Can you elaborate how these are not authentic? They look identical to 4th pattern cyphers in the Scott Pritchett GD book