Odessa medal + docs authentic?

[GoodOldGermany]

You dont need chemicals to make paper older, you can also put it in the oven. After a while it looks like a perfect treasure map.

[Dom]

Medal and document are fake



This is only a detail, there are others ...
In the document, observe calligraphy of N°

[Bill Garvy]

Images courtesy of "mondvor" site of a Variation 1:



Better scans of the document are needed to make an accurate assessment of its originality, but I have doubts regarding both the medal and document based simply on what I is being shown. If this set were offered to me I would politely pass.

For comparison purposes, here are some Defense of Odessa documents.

[Aleksander P]

Images courtesy of "mondvor" site:



Better scans of the document are needed to make an accurate assessment of its originality, but I have doubts regarding both the medal and document based simply on what I is being shown. If offered to me I would politely pass.

For comparison purposes, here are some Defense of Odessa documents.

Is Mondvor working for you at the current moment, Bill? It hasn't worked for me for a couple of days now.

[David]

Look the Belgrade topic. You can see brass medals.

[Bill Garvy]

Aleks, yes the mondvor site is quite accessible.

[David]

I only have this one.
Mitrofan Kusmich Shimchenko. 03/07/1952. Issued by the President of the Board of Deputies of Workers Stepanenko.

[Dom]

For comparison purposes, here are some Defense of Odessa documents.

Observe N° calligraphy

[Aleksander P]

Observe N° calligraphy

Also note that its "signed" by a colonel of an NKVD regiment. Fakers just love to put the initials "NKVD" everywhere.

[Bill Garvy]

What initially impressed me was the numerical font on the document being quite different from original examples, just saying. . .