07-10-2008, 09:49 PM
ericlida Wrote:Where did you buy it?
I dont have it (yet), it´s on a popular auction site...
Eryk Wrote:It's up on the "e", with a ton of other hard to find documents. Including blank "defense of" docs. Some "blanks" with stamps, but nothing else filled in. :confused:
They all have the same look, interesting in itself.
All of which triggered my alarms. The doc seems to be genuine, but there is something to it that makes me feel uncomfortable.
That is why I asked you wise men on this site to give me your opinion.
On the other hand, the writing seems to have been made with a fountain pen, not a ballpoint pen, only used in large scale some time after 1948 (the date of the document). This seems to be consistent with a postwar document (most docs issued during the GPW that I have seen were written with red crayon).
Regarding the seals, I have no idea if they can be easily counterfeited or not, or if the soldier´s unit actually fought in the Stalingrad theatre of operations.
I don´t know if I will buy the item, but I hopefully will learn a lot from it.
Regards,
Gus
