DougB exposes "Champagne Rune" SS Decal Fraud and Adds a Coffin Nail to XRFacts

This one sold a questionable factory helmet.
 

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But it's good to know that the hobby is starting to police itself.
 

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And that the good guys are starting to win!
 

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Doesn't surprise me.

You can bet those swazes on the front of helmets were done by vets.
 

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Some collectors think this hobby has gone to the dogs.
 

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- It only takes a fellow like DougB to take one of his dodgy camo helmets to an art lab for a chemical paint test to be preformed on it and an even bigger A bomb will go off then the Champagne Decal hoax.
The labs are there, they can detect fake modern art (I have recently seen a BBC program about fake art, in which they tested art work that was made in the '70's on originality with the aid of a chemical paint test) so these labs will have absolutely no problem with detecting airbrush paint on a +70 year helmet and they also don't need "a data base of known originals".
 
An episode of the BBC "Fake or fortune" series; if you don't want to watch the entire episode, go forward to 35.35 to see how a lab tests paint on an expensive modern art work.
(those labs and there tests are used in all episodes of Fake or fortune)



 
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#186 "What kind of paint is the Champagne runes ? It is an oil base? Enamel? Acrylic? "
- Nutmeg

http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=834155&highlight=Champagne&page=13


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Under the supervision of the Waffen SS, V2 rockets were build in underground factories, so I guess there might have also been a secret Waffen SS unit with an airbrush tool painting Champagne Decals on helmets.
The Waffen SS also had a counterfeit money program, so why wouldn't they have operated a counterfeit decal program?
Also the "original" Chamapgne Decal helmets came from US veterans.
So if we could find out the units of these vets were those that liberated those secret underground factories, there would be a big chance that Champagne Decals are Original wartime painted on decals.
XRF action by Maui proved that they were original and Kelly Hicks, the SS helmet guru has aproved them to, so we just need to determinate the paint compostion of authentic champagne decals and all DougB's discoveries can be thrown out of the window and the sales of champagne decal helmets and XRF pie charts can continue.
 
That's all well rationalized Peter, but all they need do is pay extra for a HamFacts Magic Rock (patent pending) Provenance Through Magic treatment and COA which will be an exorcism and re-authentication of a Champagne Rune helmets. If you pay me $20 (plus $15 handling) I will confirm your story in an email COA through the HamFacts' service, Provenance Because I Say So.
 
Peter U said:
Under the supervision of the Waffen SS, V2 rockets were build in underground factories, so I guess there might have also been a secret Waffen SS unit with an airbrush tool painting Champagne Decals on helmets.
The Waffen SS also had a counterfeit money program, so why wouldn't they have operated a counterfeit decal program?
Also the "original" Chamapgne Decal helmets came from US veterans.
So if we could find out the units of these vets were those that liberated those secret underground factories, there would be a big chance that Champagne Decals are Original wartime painted on decals.
XRF action by Maui proved that they were original and Kelly Hicks, the SS helmet guru has aproved them to, so we just need to determinate the paint compostion of authentic champagne decals and all DougB's discoveries can be thrown out of the window and the sales of champagne decal helmets and XRF pie charts can continue.
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I think you nailed it!

Peter U, savior of the Champagne Rune!
 
Peter U said:
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-lab-expose-art-fakes.html

"One of the biggest weapons in the scientific arsenal is chemical analysis of paint. "

- Perhaps in the world of art collectors but not in that of 3R helmet collectors, they will depend on forum guru's.
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Lab detectives help expose art fakes

February 14, 2014 by Véronique Martinache

In under two weeks, the art [Lid] world has been rocked by cases of forgery in which paintings [Lids] with a potential value of millions were unmasked as worthless fakes.

The two episodes, entailing a bogus Marc Chagall and a Ferdinand Leger, have shed light on the expanding role of forensic scientists in probing the authenticity of works attributed to masters.

"For years, scientists played only a marginal part in these assessments," said Gerard Sousi, founder of the Art and Law Institute, a Paris-based organisation that specialises on legal issues in art.

"Today, they are being called upon more and more."

One of the biggest weapons in the scientific arsenal is chemical analysis of paint.

Just a fleck is enough for a spectrometer to get a signature of the compounds that comprise it—and in turn, this gives a good idea of when the paint, and thus the work, was made.

For instance, if someone offers you to sell you a Rembrandt with brushstrokes of Prussian Blue, you should always decline.

The dark blue pigment, explained Philippe Walter, director of the archaeology laboratory at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, was discovered accidentally in 1704—a whole 35 years after Rembrandt's death.

In 2008, a paint called Titanium White helped expose one of the greatest art scams of all time.

Suddenly suspicious about "Red Picture with Horses", supposedly painted in 1914 by expressionist Heinrich Campendonk, the owners of the work—who had shelled out 2.8 million euros ($3.8 million) two years earlier—called in forensic scientists in Munich.

Paint not old enough

They found a tiny trace—less than one percent—of Titanium White... a paint made in the 1920s.

The trail led to a prolific German forger, Wolfgang Beltracchi.

At least 13 other works, sold sometimes for millions, turned out to be Beltracchi fakes. They included a "Max Ernst" that had hung in a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, another "Ernst" acquired by French media mogul Daniel Filipacchi and a bogus Campendonk bought by Hollywood star Steve Martin.

The forged Chagall, unwittingly bought by a British businessman and tested in a BBC documentary this month, was unmasked in part through the discovery that its blue and green pigments were too recent.

They were invented in the 1930s, whereas the portrait of the reclining nude was supposedly made in 1910.

Another scientific tool used in the discovery of fakes is a particle accelerator, which measures concentrations of the isotope carbon 14 to establish when the cotton used to make a canvas was grown.

A supposed work by Leger from 1913-14, "Contraste de Formes", was one forgery exposed in this way.

It had been part if the prestigious Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, but was never shown given doubts about its authenticity.

The mystery was finally laid to rest thanks to a team at the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics which announced last week they had found a spike in levels of carbon 14 in the canvas.

These showed that the cotton that made it was grown in the late 1950s, when concentrations of the isotope in the environment leapt because of atmospheric nuclear tests. Leger had died in 1955.

Impressive as all this may sound, science is not a substitute for art historians, who are not only familiar with the style and life history of an artist but also the context in which a work was made, said Walter.

He gave the example of jewellery from ancient Egypt.

Shown pieces of jewellery made of pure gold incrusted with semi-precious stones like turquoise or lapis lazuli, and others fabricated of a gold-and-silver alloy inlaid with coloured glass, the novice is likely to mistake the latter for cheap knock-offs.

In fact, silver and glass at the time of the Pharaohs were far more rare and valuable, said Walter.

Even though scientists are more important in the field than ever, they are asked to investigate an artwork only when doubts exist, added Sousi.

"In the art market, transactions are often carried out swiftly, and in conditions lacking transparency, and due diligence can suffer," he explained.

And, he observed, owners of a doubtful, but expensively-bought, piece of work may be keener to hand it on rather than risk having it exposed as worthless.
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It's noteworthy that this article doesn't describe handheld XRF as the primary scientific tool of choice by professionals investigating authenticity of paint.

Chemical compounds of a substance are usually measured with a mass spectrometer or MS. I think the article is inaccurate where it cites a "particle accelerator" to measure concentrations of the isotope carbon 14. They likely meant an accelerator mass spectrometer or AMS.

In fact, there's no mention of elemental analysis. There is mention of chemical analysis to identify chemical compounds. Chemical compounds are the true finger print of a paint coating. That fact was discussed in the XRF thread.

Also, carbon 14 analysis is used to date the paint. Contrary to claims made by David May and Kelly Hicks and advertised by XRFacts, XRF elemental analysis can't date anything or establish a substance "fingerprint."
 
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The next lid to fall...........

A rare image taken by embedded OSS agents of the soon to come out documentary that cracks the code on the secret DAK clandestine black market fake camo helmet painting scheme.

Initiated early war by Rommel in conjunction with the OSS, the funds were to support Operation Valkyrie. Classified until just recently, this startling expose will blow the lid on the fake camo lid market. Stay tuned.


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jhv 41 said:
A rare image taken by embedded OSS agents of the soon to come out documentary that cracks the code on the secret DAK clandestine black market fake camo helmet painting scheme.

Initiated early war by Rommel in conjunction with the OSS, the funds were to support Operation Valkyrie. Classified until just recently, this startling expose will blow the lid on the fake camo lid market. Stay tuned.


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That looks like proof of wartime airbrushing C SS lids to me. They aren't applying decals. The guy without a shirt is yelling at the other guys to hurry up with the templates. This shipment has got to be on a boat to the US so they can be included in the World Wide Database.
 
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Peter U said:
- It only takes a fellow like DougB to take one of his dodgy camo helmets to an art lab for a chemical paint test to be preformed on it and an even bigger A bomb will go off then the Champagne Decal hoax.
The labs are there, they can detect fake modern art (I have recently seen a BBC program about fake art, in which they tested art work that was made in the '70's on originality with the aid of a chemical paint test) so these labs will have absolutely no problem with detecting airbrush paint on a +70 year helmet and they also don't need "a data base of known originals".
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I think you're absolutely right, Peter. The chemical analysis of camo paint could prove to be the atomic bomb of the hobby, compared to the mere firecracker of the C-SS hoax.

Of course, prior to 8 May 1945 paints with certain chemical properties existed that differ from the more recently developed paints used today.

What if analysis determines that thousands of these 'one-looker' camos actually have modern chemical compositions?

How handy would it be to have a hand-held paint-zapper to tell you instantly if you were looking at a 70+ year old camo or a piece of modern art? This would make camo collecting extremely easy, would it not?
 
M45 said:
I think you're absolutely right, Peter. The chemical analysis of camo paint could prove to be the atomic bomb of the hobby, compared to the mere firecracker of the C-SS hoax.

Of course, prior to 8 May 1945 paints with certain chemical properties existed that differ from the more recently developed paints used today.

What if analysis determines that thousands of these 'one-looker' camos actually have modern chemical compositions?

How handy would it be to have a hand-held paint-zapper to tell you instantly if you were looking at a 70+ year old camo or a piece of modern art? This would make camo collecting extremely easy, would it not?
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That's a great idea! I wonder why no one has ever thought of that? It would be a savior.
 
Peter and I were posting about chemical (not element) analysis 10 years ago due to the ridiculous "camos" at WAF being blessed and sold. We were censored and banned for it.

Typical waftardation can be again seen at post 199. We had Nutmeg poking at DougB with the "what kind of paint is it" foolishness and now this. Nutmeg was one of the "XRFacts is the savior of the hobby" guys.
http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=834155&highlight=Champagne&page=14

Now imagine the mods wading in to censor DougB and lock the thread. I have no doubt they would if he didn't have his own site and we wouldn't roast them for it publicly.
 
Meh. That paint zapper would only work if they issued COA's and there was a guy's name on the COA who had written books on the subject ....
 
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