Document Stamp - Need help identifying...

**dzyner** · 10-20-2010, 12:14 AM

Hi! I acquired this stamp in a lot of other misc German military items and would like to learn a little more about it. I primarily collect uniforms and cloth items, so this is new territory for me.

Can someone who knows more about stamps than I do please tell me first if this is authentic, and second what military branch and use it would have served?

Thanks!!
Dzyner

Document Stamp - Need help identifying...

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-20-2010 12:14 AM

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**zwerge** · 10-20-2010, 01:30 AM

It looks like it says meine ehre heisst treue on it,why don`t you put some ink on it and make a stamping so we don`t have to read it backwards?

**dzyner** · 10-20-2010, 01:58 AM

Hi zwerge. Nice idea, but I'm not sure that would be the best idea from a collectors point of view. Maybe I can apply enough pressure on a piece of paper to emboss it so I can get the imprint. I'll try it later.

**dzyner** · 10-20-2010, 03:57 AM

Ok so I looked up the stamp wording and it's the SS motto, "my honour is loyalty". So now the bigger question... Is this authentic?

**Walkwolf** · 10-20-2010, 04:48 AM

I do not think it is authentic.

**dzyner** · 10-20-2010, 06:24 AM

Hi Walkwolf. Can you please elaborate on that?? What are the reasons for your opinion?

**Franz1944** · 10-20-2010, 07:27 AM

your right it is SS stamp, but question is it authentic. I'm not to familiar with stamps, but i agree with walkwolf, to me it seems like a fantasy stamp. (i could be wrong.) If original got your self a collectible stamp

Try looking up SS documents on the Internet or SS stamps.

**qotd** · 10-20-2010, 08:27 AM

I think the main issue is the handle of the stamp. There was a couple of these on another thread and the handles were the same and they were thought fake. I think the general opinion is that German wartime stamps did not have this shape of handle.

**qotd** · 10-20-2010, 08:29 AM

I think the term they used was a "mushroom" handle, and that is a good sign these are post war. I remember seeings pics of real ones, again on another thread for comparison. A lot of these turn up on e bay

**Adrian Stevenson** · 10-20-2010, 08:29 AM

Hi Darren, sorry it is a fantasy item based upon the design of the SS Officers belt buckle. It has the usual poorly made Eastern European handle.

Cheers, Ade.