SS and RZM markings - fake or real?

[Gastvrijheid]

Noted in a fake SS visor. Are these markings copied from the genuine to aid deception? or just fantasy? I am not a cloth headgear guy.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The "RZM A 3" stamp is a fantasy mark. The other things here, the stamp in the Muetzenboden as gold cliche, and the RZM/SS acceptance stamp
on the peak are copied from originals. If you look carefully at the threads here, you will find many examples, even if, as you write, you are "not a cloth headgear guy."
You can be certain that many of us here are just that....

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A 3 was an RZM category for the retail of DAF caps, if memory serves.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Here is the Muetzenboden of an authentic SS cap.

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The license number from the RZM for a contractor is in virtually all cases on the RZM tag, seen above.

In the above, A 1/ 59 Isken, Koeln am Rhein.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The maker's license number is found here.

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A 1 / 4 Clemens Wagner, Braunschweig

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Here is an authentic RZM/SS stamp on the reverse of the peak.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The fakes of the ca 1938 or so black enlisted cap have reached a high state of polish. The fakes of earlier caps are also well developed.

The "A3" mark is a total failure in the realm of fakery.