Last night, in This thread, (post 7) i mentioned the 1991 Austria Newspaper article about Souval. You will only Benefit from reading it, and 99% of you have not seen it, and not read it, i have translated it into English for those who cant read German. For those of you who would like a Huge scan of it, in German, PM me with your email addy. (the pic below may be big enough for German readers to read, but if not, no worries, just PM me)
I was fortunate enough, to have Ray Cowdery send me the original articles that he used for his 1993 book, Nazi Militaria, Real or Fake for use in my own project. Ray showed the article on page 53, but only in small A5 form, and impossible for anyone to actually read. Article translation follows below:
I was fortunate enough, to have Ray Cowdery send me the original articles that he used for his 1993 book, Nazi Militaria, Real or Fake for use in my own project. Ray showed the article on page 53, but only in small A5 form, and impossible for anyone to actually read. Article translation follows below:
i don't think that any collector wants to really think about the sheer scale of things. After all, we are talking about 1 single maker in Austria here, who by his own words exported 50,000 Awards per year during the sixties, as he said, but was still making them when this interview took place in the 90`s. (What was he doing between 1946 and 1960 then? getting ready to fake items 
he would have been churning out items long before the last gun fell silent i bet) Then we have makers like Steinhauer & Lück in Germany, and all the rest of the original makers who were doing what they could to get by.. we are talking about millions upon millions of items here. Somehow, most of these items have vanished, and what we recognize as a copy today, most likely comes from Eastern Europe, or was made not too long ago.
