New collector - Genuine items or repro?

**Militariacurious** · 07-21-2012, 07:28 PM

Hi guys. What an amazing site - I have spend the last week searching and enjoying all the different post in here

One of my friends here in Denmark has been given a lot of medals and other militaria from a guy, who has been an eager collector since the end of WW2. Problem is that he also collected repro items, why we no longer are able to determine which items are repro and which items are genuine - so we hope for your help and expertise

Down below I will try to attach some of the items my friend has been given. Are these items real and if so - does my friend need to store them in a safe place (because of their value) ? ;-) Your help is very much appreciated

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 07-21-2012 07:28 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**StuG III** · 07-21-2012, 07:35 PM

I'm sorry, but they all appear to be copies with no real value.

Tom

**HJ-Collector** · 07-21-2012, 07:35 PM

hi welcome to the forum and the hobby but the items show are not original

tom beat me to it

**Militariacurious** · 07-21-2012, 07:47 PM

Hi guys - and thanks

I´m happy to have your expertise at hand. Would be a shame if even a single one of the shown items should turn out to be genuine and my friend didn´t know it and didn´t take rightfully care of it

He send my a couple of pics more (he has a lot of items). But these items below seems also to be fakes (I was more in doubt about the above items).

**StuG III** · 07-21-2012, 07:51 PM

The Kriegsverdienst medal looks good. The police ID tag I'm not too sure of, but doubt it.
The wound badge is also bad as is the last one which was actually copied from a shooting lanyard badge and was never made to be worn in this fashion (as a separate badge, I mean)

Tom

**Wagriff** · 07-21-2012, 08:14 PM

About the only Possibly good one is the KVK, as mentioned. The rest-including the outrageously expensive Hitler wound badge are Very poor fakes. The Geheime square token actually looks like it is converted from one of the older bread token fakes. A fake made into an even worse fake! Personally, I would pass on even the KVK, as the rest of the bad pieces cast it also into a bad light. It's not rare or particularly valuable, in any case.

**Woolgar** · 07-21-2012, 08:40 PM

Welcome to the forum

Sadly these are dreadful items

Nick

**Walkwolf** · 07-21-2012, 10:28 PM

As said, all are bad except for the Kriegsverdienst Medal.........

**Glenn66** · 07-22-2012, 09:46 AM

No wonder the previous owner gave them away.

**Adrian** · 07-22-2012, 10:48 AM

Hello and welcome. Unfortunately, all the guys above are correct, they are all very poor fakes except for the Kriegsverdienstmedaille.

Compare to some of the originals you can see here on the site and you will notice a vast difference in terms of quality.

In future, it's always best to start a new thread for each different piece.