The proportions sure don't look right, and first time I unfolded it I got the impression that it was cut down (which it doesn't appear to be). The quality is not all that great either, made me think that it was something for temporary use, almost disposable. And it looks kinda like a Kriegsmarine flag, but with an SS stamp? Lots of details that make you go hmmmm...
However, this is what puzzles me most of all: Why would anybody make a fake that looks like this? If you go through the effort of making a fake, you'd usually make something that's easily recognizable so you can sell it easily. Another strange detail is the pinwheel stamp, a faker would probably just slap the SS stamp on it and call it a day.
I guess I'll bring it to the TMCA show and see if somebody can figure it out.
Edit: The rest of the collection looked rather mundane at a glance, but when you inspected them more closely there was often a twist to them. For example: there several seemingly mundane Makarov pistols, but when I looked closer I found that most of them were non imports (even one of the rare Chinese military Maks). There were also some Com-Bloc bayonets that were not the cheap surplus I thought they were, many of them were rare variations that he obviously hand picked for his collection. Lots of high dollar books as well, so it seems like the guy had a pretty good idea of what he was doing.
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