Help on this star of black eagle

[eos512]

May I ask is it authentic? Looking a bit weird to me

 

[Alex K]

Can I ask, as a novice, exactly which bit is "weird" or am I missing something? 

[VtwinVince]

Any marks on this one? Can you unscrew the back plate?

[Wild Card]

Here, for comparison, is a star which was awarded in 1901. It is marked “W” at six o’clock on the reverse.

 

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[bolewts58]

Wild Card.

 

I took the liberty of converting your tif files (which aren't an approved file format) to jpg so they could be seen.

 

 

Edited March 12, 2023 by bolewts58

[Wild Card]

Hello bolewts58,

 

Thank you very much for your thoughtfulness and assistance.

 

While the vast majority of my photo records are jpeg, some, such as these, are tif; and my feeble efforts to convert them were totally unsuccessful. I hope that they prove to be of some value to the discussion.

 

Again, thank you and best wishes,

 

Wild Card

[saschaw]

Is this yours, and could you provide higher-quality pictures? I fear we cannot be definitive from what can be seen here. It generally does look good, but I see something that might be a red flag. It's certainly not a piece to be judged from three mediocre pictures.

 

 

On 11/03/2023 at 05:56, Alex K said:

Can I ask, as a novice, exactly which bit is "weird" or am I missing something? 

The thing is these have been heavily faked since the 1980s, sometimes in incredibly high quality. I guess this is what eos512 is referring to...