Do you question the photograph Jo? Does it make any sence to know where the photograph is?
I really don't care and I cannot bother myself about it. Do you possibly suggest the photograph
has "been faked"?
Yes, there are mistakes in his
book, but a photograph does not lie! The photograph anyway
shows the wearing of one of the badges. And the photograph has not been photo-shopped.
Not in
1988, as most of us did not even know how to handle properly a computer. I guess David
even might have owned this photograph many years before the publishing of his book. Some
photographs I handed over to him in about
1978 or so (for example page 133 and page 320.
I told him what tunic it was, but he mentioned it to be NPEA, which is not correct. In fact it was
one of my tunics from the
Reichsschule at Valkenburg in south-Limburg, the Netherlands).
How can we know where the photo is. My friend David died in 2005. That's now over six
years ago. Maybe a lot of his material has been spread around the world. Maybe the new
owner (somebody mentioned me his name, but I have forgotten it) of the material knows
if the photograph is in the old stocked stuff!
No, I never did buy any of them. They asked - even in those days - to much money for the
card with fakes. I surely could not have afforded an original one. But how could I know if
another one would be original. Then I had not seen such a badge. Is it correct that ones
without a marking are original? Who says so. Isn't it so that practically all dealers and
HY-experts are "parotting"?
Nobody is able to show - as far as I know - a shred of paper where such a badge is actually
being mentioned, who the maker was and what color it should have! I think this discussion
about these badges does not lead us to nothing!