Saschaw, I would not be so quick on yours... when did your Father purchase the bar? The mounting style is a legitimate, WW2 era mount. The problem in the last few years is the vast quantity of original materials that were flushed out into the market and the relative ease of duplicating this style has resulted in a veritable plethora of new, put-together bars. This causes many of us to suspect everything in this style, often times resulting in good pieces being denigrated for nothing. Now, what becomes very interesting, IMO, is that this very bar is in the precise, correct mounting precedence for an Austrian... Note that his Austrian Awards precede the W?rttemberg SBM... No German would do that...... I think there's a possibility the bar is legit and am not ready to condemn it just yet...