Real or fake deaths head

[Jan]

The picture is kinda poor i know but... Any opinions? All welcome. The piece is missing both prongs.

[colt45]

they stamped a lot of these thru the years ??

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Do look for what Robin Lumsden posts about these on the various sites, including this one, but also the Wehrmacht Awards and the World War Raymong G forum.

I rely on Lumsden for the most incisive expertise on these badges.

If this is of the period, your piece looks like a collar patch badge for army armor units.

The Danziger Totenkopf came in many versions, and, of course, is also faked. It came in a version for the Pelzmuetze, for the Schirmmuetze, and for other uses, as well, as on insignia.

Here is a rare variant on an even more rare grey SS cap of early make.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

This is colleague d'Alquen's wonderful cap. This is the version seen frequently, and in this case, authentic and in situ.....

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Here is a variation of same.... also d'Alquen's property and a wonderful piece.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

and yet another.....from the Coleman treasures....

if this were easy, then it would not be very interesting, don't you think?

[Friedrich-Berthold]

an exemplar, of yet another variation....seldom found... The man with the piercing gaze here is Wilhelm Kube, later a noted mass murderer and tormentor of present day Belarus in its Nazi form.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Jan, I would agree with "FB", that this is a Heer Panzer collar insignia. However, a much better pic is required to determine originality.

Cheers, Ade.

[Fenix82]

panzerskull for tabs, not SS

[BenVK]

Well of course.

If anyone is looking for original first pattern ss cap skulls at knock down prices, try here.

TotenKopf 'dead head' SS Hat Badges