SS Hauptsturmführer Rank Tab

[Woolgar]

Guys

This look genuine but as always with SS I would be grateful for your opinions

Many thanks

Nick

[HD1450]

Nice salty one Nick

[Woolgar]

Thanks Mark !

Nick

[Hsturmfhgeorg]

me too, I like it

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I like it also, especially the variety of Sternchen, all of which look authentic to me.

[Woolgar]

Thank you

A friend has a couple of questions about this tab that I cant answer:


"1/ why would one pip have a different state of oxidization ,would it be silver coated or something.
2/ why would it have three different types of pips.
3/ why does the piping around it have no apparent oxidizing compared to the two bigger pips.
It may just be because it has silver thread instead of aluminum. I don’t know
The two pips with the brass prongs the prongs on them seem to have two different rates of oxidization."

I would be grateful for any help

Thanks

Nick

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Has your friend actually ever been around real soldiers?

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Does your friend know the difference between zinc and aluminum, and how these Werkstoffe appear over the march of the decades?

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Aluminum Sternchen.....

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Zinc Sternchen, with their more or less normal appearance across the gulf of time....

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Most Feinzink loses its painted or whatever finish, and dulls to a grey metal.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Compare the alu piping on your badge to mine, and I see the normal appearance, and the alu wire has a different composition than the Sternchen, plainly.

You can drive yourself insane looking at all our pictures versus a minute examination of authentic items.