Only $3,722....!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=320001021434
Squarely halfway between its value real, and its value as a pretty fake.
Upon final reflection:
1. IF the vendor's father paid so much money for it in the 1960s, he would've have kept paperwork/provenance for it. We all know it isn't from Richthofen's family.
2. Most cases that have had names added over time are styled differently, ie initials/no intitials, some with dates/w/o dates, some with ranks written in or even squadrons. These names look like they were all done at the same time, in which case the previous comments about Schleich's "von" apply.
Now I can afford that Red Baron action figure eBay lists as a "similar item" !
