WW2 officers knots real or fake

[Pippo]

Hello, have a chap saying this knots legit but im calling it a repro ( and  colours im sure are incorrect_ orange brown and mid green, not general colours or brown red/ brown blue or standard brown) but i dont know it all so could be wrong

[Brian]

Looks very fake to me.

[Pippo]

Well thats my thoughts but chap was adamant so thought id ask

[PNSSHOGUN]

Total fake, not even close enough for display so worthless.

[Bruce Pennington]

There are no known WWII Japanese tassels with that color mix.  Fading can do some tricks with the old colors, but the real ones are uniform on each side.  For example a brown/blue can fade to brown/purple or brown/almost brown, but the colors stay on their respective sides.  There is no mixed colors like this one.  And green has never been one of the colors used.

[Stephen]

Colors aside the knots are ugly bad

[Paul G]

Agreed, bad tassel. Aside from the wrong colors, the knots on the tassel heads are non-existent really, just a bunch of cord looped over and tied. On real examples, there would be a braided knot at the top of each tassel. As well, the cords on the end of the tassel are just cut off cord. Real examples have a little loop on each end which is barely noticeable, unless you are looking for it. In addition to all that, there is no slider for it, its just tied into a knot.

 

PG- 

[Ontario_Archaeology]

bad fake tassel, 

closest thing it could resemble is the "general/ admiral" rank navy tassel. Although I only think there are one or two kicking around that are known of. 

[dwmc]

On 11/14/2023 at 10:41 PM, Pippo said:

Hello, have a chap saying this knots legit but im calling it a repro ( and  colours im sure are incorrect_ orange brown and mid green, not general colours or brown red/ brown blue or standard brown) but i dont know it all so could be wrong

 Someone was selling these on Ebay several years ago. Claimed he had acquired a (shoe box) full. I foolishly bought one and yes, they are indeed extremely fake...

 

Dave M.