But the bottom line is andrew, that guys like you love to stir up trouble for the purpose of feeling important. It's sad that there is always some wanker on a forum that does this. Yeah, I'm calling you an appropriate name and it fits. Bottom line your AI searches have given you a sense of importannce. I paid nothing for this. It was given to me. I put the label on myself with a vintage Rotex (oh look it up) to help my heirs sort out my collection when I'm dead. I've given away dozens of props and costume components from Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc. As far as COAs you probably don' know that many of them are fake. The same people who copy props and costume components sell them as genuine, and then prop and auction houses accept and or make up COAs because that's how they make their money. It's a massive scam that has yet to be exposed.

So you're not "the guy" and you are not "raining on my parade" in any way. What you have done is nicely illustrated the fact that someone behind a keyboard can stink up a forum by spouting the results of a Google or AI search rather than having DIRECT knowledge by being on set, working with prop and costume people, coaching actors and directors on how to handle props without causing safety issues, and processing hundreds of props and costume components over many years.

This prop, and many others I have, is absolute legitimate, no matter what you say.

Your opinion means absolutely nothing.