I concur that using photos in today's world is sketchy for proof and verification. What if someone of the appropriate age, dressed up in an authentic WWII uniform, put on my Steinhauer & Luck PLM, or any other version in question was photographed in B/W and posted here. That could/would fuel a debate on its authenticty, regardless that the photo was a total fraud. In Germany the Ernst Junger museum sent me a photo of his PLM on display there. It is clearly a 1957 S&L piece, not a pre-1918 award piece. This raises the question where is the original, Was the swapped?, did he have 2 (or more), who knows. Two many variables these days, so best to go on pure facts.