The question is still extant: was that regulation a reaction because people were stamping stuff or was the regulation designed to stop it happening in the first place?
Garry (cool down :001_tt2
I somewhat disagree, and this is why. As far as i am concerned, your question is answered because:
When it comes to Rules and regulations, and reading what is said about them, as can be done for the first 5 odd years of the RZM period papers, you have to read them all, and then you will get a sorta sense of what they mean, ie: as you stated above, were they being mentioned to STOP this kinda back door fabrication, or were they just being mentioned per say.
And like i said, there are cases, many cases, where the RZM repeatedly mentions something, over and over, even to the extent of publicly Warning ! ie:
We are saying this for the very last time, if xxx don't follow, then all the stock will be confiscated and the person jailed.
There are even follow up articles published naming certain makers and people, and noting why they are now in jail, or what their punishment was, or the fact that certain stocks have now been confiscated etc etc etc... There are even long articles about Fake RZM tags in circulation !!!
So, after reading all of these, we gain a picture (somewhat) of what the RZM meant when they said something, mentioned something once or twice, or repeatedly mentioned the same thing....
Now, we take the brief mention in 1934 That "
Printed HJ armbands are verboten", one line, one sentence, that's it. Again later on, there is another brief mention that Printed NSDAP armbands are verboten. And that is all we can read, or find out about what the RZM had to say about printed armbands.
So we take what we know, have read and actually happened pertaining to stuff that was verboten, and stuff which the RZM found cause enough to write about and mention, and we see that there are only two, brief, fleeting mentions that they are verboten. We don't find them repeatedly going on about it,. or warning makers over and over, so common logic answers this (your) question above.
Plenty of room is left open for speculation and what
ifs and
maybes, but once all the facts are considered, in a logical way, and weighed up with other known facts about stuff which the RZM "
flipped out" about, we can only reach the logical conclusion that there was no Problem as such with printed armbands overflowing on the streets, units or markets back then.
Logic and common sense usually answers tricky questions for us. Lets also not forget that Printed armbands are still being offered today by the Repro makers as well. The thread above pertains actually to the bogus stamp, just the same as, in my opinion of course, the RZM stamp on yours is bogus. History tells us that it has to be bogus.
I`m not a cloth fan, so i guess that's my 3 pence on this thread. But before i would try and explain
what-if and
could-be to myself on any item i was unsure of, i would look at what is printed first and try and build on that. The way i see these, is that they are "
Could be if we use our imagination" pieces.. like so much of what is in collections today.