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It would appear that the current way to turn a few bob is to buy up cheap unmarked Zuckerman helmets and then apply lettering of a firm (see previous examples for the WVS and Avro Aircraft). This garbage comes from a regular shyster on eBay known for hawking all sorts of faked militaria. I expect we'll see quite a lot of these helmets in the future.  Fake 'MACLEANS' Zuckerman Helmet
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Coming from the same shed as the previously blogged Avro Aircraft Zuckerman helmet, is this WVS Mobile Canteen No. 4 example. The seller is notorious amongst collectors for fabricating all sorts of militaria. This is another recently lettered Zuckerman with distressing added to give a whiff of authenticity. At time of writing, bids on the tat bazaar had driven the price to £156. A waste of money and the seller is an utter disgrace.  Fake WVS Mobile Canteen No. 4 Zuckerman Helmet Here's a beauty, an Avro Aircraft Zuckerman from another well-known faker of militaria. This helmet is currently on the tat bazaar and may well catch out a few peeps. It's had quite a lot of fake work done on it to age the modern water slide transfer. Unfortunately, the fakers didn't do their homework as the Avro Heritage Museum has a page that explains the company never used "AVRO AIRCRAFT" on any company signage in the UK...  Fake "Avro Aircraft" Zuckerman Helmet Direct from the garden shed of a notorious shyster in the Midlands is this piece of utter garbage. The huckster in question has been knocking up variations of this "IB-fin-in-a-plank" for quite a while. Previously, we've had the same with wording relating to the Coventry Blitz (sometimes it's a little type-written note glued on). Given the number of items he's made I'm surprised his letter stamping hasn't improved but clearly he learns very slowly (off centre, misaligned etc etc). If you were unfortunately conned by this shyster on eBay, send the crap back to him.  Fake Westminster Houses of Parliament Incendiary Bomb (IB) Fin & Wood Base Doing the rounds again are these fake SCOUT ARP armbands. Sold on eBay by a notorious shyster in the Midlands, he's being flogging these pieces of crap onto unsuspecting collectors for a while. This utter tosser uses a number of aliases on eBay to sell his forgeries. He was also responsible, at one time, for a large number of fake enamel ARP badges but it appears he's not listing those currently (hopefully because this site lists all the known forgeries...). The badges do, however, still creep onto auction sites as "original". eBay itself it partly to blame, also. Whilst they have put money and effort into validating certain watch brands and (of all things) collectible trainers (yes 'sneakers'), they never cover the veritable plethora of faked (and very expansive) militaria on its site.  Fake WW2 Scout ARP Armband |
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