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How to judge an award document?
Just have this document of Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse, well reserved, brand new, How to see if it is genuine or not, other than the black light test?
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01-15-2019 01:52 PM
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The only way you can tell original from fake, unless they are so obviously bad it stands out a mile, is through comparisons with known originals. The black light test is ok up to a point but even if it glows it doesn't mean it is fake, it could just mean it has come in to contact with other materials in the decades since the war ended.
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Paper documents are one of the easiest things to fake. Very difficult sometimes to be sure, though obviously checks also include with signatures are whether printed or by ink pens and type and weight of paper. There are probably advanced tests that can be made on paper composition to see if it matches types made in the 1930's and 1940's. Typewriter font can also giveaway evidence of period of manufacture. All in all, many possible pitfalls for the collector of Third Reich documents.
Recently I read about the analysis of some documents that came to light, apparently secret files from the 1940's. The stationary was correct and period, as was the typewriter used, but what finally exposed it as a modern fake was phases and terminology in the document not commonly used in the 1940's.
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hucks216
The only way you can tell original from fake, unless they are so obviously bad it stands out a mile, is through comparisons with known originals. The black light test is ok up to a point but even if it glows it doesn't mean it is fake, it could just mean it has come in to contact with other materials in the decades since the war ended.
Thanks. The black light test is ok. But this one is really new. The first one that I get, cannot judge.
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Anderson
Paper documents are one of the easiest things to fake. Very difficult sometimes to be sure, though obviously checks also include with signatures are whether printed or by ink pens and type and weight of paper. There are probably advanced tests that can be made on paper composition to see if it matches types made in the 1930's and 1940's. Typewriter font can also giveaway evidence of period of manufacture. All in all, many possible pitfalls for the collector of Third Reich documents.
Recently I read about the analysis of some documents that came to light, apparently secret files from the 1940's. The stationary was correct and period, as was the typewriter used, but what finally exposed it as a modern fake was phases and terminology in the document not commonly used in the 1940's.
Thank you. Could you be more exact on the doubtable terminology or phases you found in it? I have no experience at all.
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