Berlin Police Warrant tag - right or wrong?

[FrontlineAntiques]

Afternoon gentlemen

I have just had this offered to me, and im not so sure about it.

What is the general concensus?

[FrontlineAntiques]

rear and box

[FrontlineAntiques]

Does anyone have an opinion as to it being original/replica?

[Gordon Williamson]

Looks like one of the fakes featured on Don's site. Originals are extremely rare.

http://home.comcast.net/~donbible/

[Kev in Deva]

Looks like one of the many cheap tacky fakes seen around and about.

Kevin in Deva. :beer:

[FrontlineAntiques]

I hadnt seen Don's site before. Its very informative, and shows this tag for what it is - a nasty fake.

Im new to TR and shocked by the numbe of fakes out there, both good and bad. I think that over 2/3 of the items i have looked at to purchase have been fakes, possibly even more.

I can see that i am going to have to do a lot more reading before getting my wallet out!

Thanks for your insight guys

Dan

[Gordon Williamson]

Don actually published a book "Anatomy of Deception" in 1996, with the full story of these fake Prussian Police Discs. They come from Poland.

[Chris Boonzaier]

I hadnt seen Don's site before. Its very informative, and shows this tag for what it is - a nasty fake.

Im new to TR and shocked by the numbe of fakes out there, both good and bad. I think that over 2/3 of the items i have looked at to purchase have been fakes, possibly even more.

Go Imperial!!!!! :-)

[FrontlineAntiques]

Go Imperial!!!!! :-)

I'm considering it Chris!

I do have a growing Hindenburg cross collection and I'm interested in prussian awards.

But the design of the TR stuff really gets me!

[JoeW]

Don actually published a book "Anatomy of Deception" in 1996, with the full story of these fake Prussian Police Discs. They come from Poland.

They were allegedly produced in Poland, but the purchase was from England. They are of course floating around in the US.

[Jon-Olav Holden]

Seen a lot of them lately