Gentlemen, need your help please.
Trying to help another collector, but this is the only photo he has.
I dont like it, but need your expertise.
Demjansk Shield - original ?
Gentlemen, need your help please.
Trying to help another collector, but this is the only photo he has.
I dont like it, but need your expertise.
Hi norsk41elv,
The shield is a fake, known as the 'Serif J Fake' due to the 'tail' on the top end of the 'J'. It is most probably zinc, and therefore non magnetic whereas known originals are steel and as such, magnetic. The backing material also comes in various odd shades and colours, as this one appears to. Here's a better pic showing the same bogus shield.
Regards, Ned.
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
It was what I feared also ! Thank you Ned.
Regards Jørn
agree with Ned.
You can count on our Ned!.....
As said, the dreaded "serif J" strikes again. No good I'm afraid. Leon.
Omar Serif.........?
Regards,
Steve.
These have been around since the late 1970's and now have genuine age to them.
I know as I bought one back then......
They were produced by Johannes Floch.
Cheers, Ade.
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Damn Floch!
That's Johannes with a 'Serif J' I take it dear leader?by Adrian Stevenson
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
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