volkssturm Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Hi every one, I found this Reichskriegsflagge recently, I forgot to measure it, but I think it is 89 x 59 cm, it passed th black light test (it doesn?t glows in most of it, and glows a just a very little bit in some spots), it is in bad shape due to decoloring, the most decolored side is the back one, it looks like it once had color in both sides because between the seams (as in the pictues).I guess both sides had been decoloured (one side more that the other) when someone tried to wash the blood (now, I cannot tell if it is human, animal blood, or something that looks alike) seems like letters where whiped away or never been there, I don?t know.Anyway, seems to be very good manufactured, the guy from wich I got it told me that this flag was from an u-boot And now the pictureswhat do you think about this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkssturm Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 back side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkssturm Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 between seams 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkssturm Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 seams 2, the camera had an option that sayed text mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naxos Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Could that be rust stains? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkssturm Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 a corner, if you want more pics I can post them with no problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkssturm Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 I think it could be rust stains too, because both, blood and rust stains looks alike I would like to find luminol (the liquid that policemen sprays to find blood or corporal fluids stains) to test it with black light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest charlie m Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 (edited) Out right fake .Burn the end of rope it will melt.Construction nothing like genuine ww2 examplesregards cmps i have about 16 genuine nazi flags and a few banners.My biggest is a gross 10 RKF 300x500 and my 2 smallest RKFs 50x85 and not one glows under a black light. Edited June 10, 2009 by charlie m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkssturm Posted June 10, 2009 Author Share Posted June 10, 2009 Out right fake .Burn the end of rope it will melt.Construction nothing like genuine ww2 examplesregards cmps i have about 16 genuine nazi flags and a few banners.My biggest is a gross 10 RKF 300x500 and my 2 smallest RKFs 50x85 and not one glows under a black light. Oh god, so fast I read your post I went running to burn the end of the rope, and it didn?t melt; it also passed the black light test because it doesn?t glows (unlike a west-wall medal ribbon I have that did glowed), just glows a very little bit in a few spots, like if it was washed with something. Do you have more information about these flags and construction??thanks Charles, for your advice and any help you can give ; ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest charlie m Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Sitching wrongconstruction wrongno reinforcing corners wrong weave on rope and it looks like the rope it came with and i will bet it dous melt slightly if the burn test done correctlybleeched to disguise the uv black lightmade i think in the 70s sold for 50 dollers as a copyregards cm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkssturm Posted June 10, 2009 Author Share Posted June 10, 2009 Sitching wrongconstruction wrongno reinforcing corners wrong weave on rope and it looks like the rope it came with and i will bet it dous melt slightly if the burn test done correctlybleeched to disguise the uv black lightmade i think in the 70s sold for 50 dollers as a copyregards cmInteresting, I didn?t knew that bleach disguised the black light; about the burn test: how can I do it correctly? if you know any web page I would be gratefull, because I would like to buy more in a future and I would like to spot fakes.Thanks Charles, for helping me to clean my collection from fakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest charlie m Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 (edited) This is a very small example of my flag collection.Look at the ropes all the same weave and the headers are the same just differant designations Edited June 13, 2009 by charlie m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest charlie m Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 I can give you moor pics of all my othter flags if you want just ask cm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkssturm Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 I can give you moor pics of all my othter flags if you want just ask cmOh, of course send more pictures of them , they very nice and the more I know about them the more I would spot a fake, and I hope that any one who needs help with flags or is thinking in buying one may find this thread usefull. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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