HI DD, nice to see you here :swiss
Tough? I prefer the word HONEST!
People like Wittmann and friends have been conjuring up descriptions for their fake and fantasy wares for decades. The latest Fantasy Wittman
HJ knife to sell, was worth $1,400.-
Can i write complete and utter pooh like;
This is a choice conditioned Nürnberg commemorative knife here and is one of the leftovers that were discovered about a decade ago when the wall came in and allowed “pickers” to investigate the old stores and shops which lay virtually untouched in East Germany.
and then moan that people are being "
Tough" on me when questioned?
When the wall came down a decade ago? (1990 = a decade?) and are we supposed to believe that from 1945-1990, Third Reich stuff just lay around in old shops in the DDR, waiting until 1990 when selected "pickers" could now "investigate" ??
These hawkers of modern bric-a-brac will adapt the story to fit... here is a classic example from the Wittman offerings this week:
Knife N°: 19- This Hitler Youth Knife was probably one of the last pieces made judging by the fact that it is dated 1942.
OK, but when Wittman tries to sell a DJ-diamond-on-scabbard fake (red or green diamond) then all of a sudden 1942 will change to a "possible" late 1944, or early 1945....
So when the messenger of truth, or the person bringing a few documented facts to the table, proves these brick-a-brac-peddlers stories to be invented, it is history that is in direct conflict with what the peddler of dubious wares is saying; and not the person sharing the info. Yet the nature of the game today, with most Big Wigs being buddy-buddy and enjoying a parasitic relationship - calls "slander" and "abuse" - it is only because they are having their pants pulled down in public. To believe that someone like Wittman, who has written so many dagger books, and handled so many daggers, has simply made a mistake with one or two descriptions, leads to two possible scenarios only:
The first being that indeed the mistakes he (and them) make, can be attributed to honest mistakes - meaning that 40 years later, they (or he) dont actually know as much as they are pretending to, and have been
winging it for all these years... or..
The second is that they know exactly what they are doing, and have been using their reputation for all this time to assist in the selling and automatic authentication of fakes and fantasy knives and daggers, disregarding history for profit.
For many people, what Wittman says, is enough to close the wildest debate. Craig Gottliebs Fantasy SA-Birdshead dagger(s) are great evidence of this, when Gottlieb ran away from the WAF thread, the thread that proved his dagger a fantasy Atwood invention - after lying about it, and using only the following in his, and it`s defense... "Oh well, Wittmann and Johnson think its real, and Wittman is including it in his new dagger
book."
No need to elaborate on that, it`s clear enough.... "Wittmann says its OK, so Shut up, that settles any debate, or what you, history or common sense says." .... and anyone who disagrees is a hater?
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