Hello Forum
I guy wants to sell me this cap, I am in doubt is it a repro or real ?
Regards
John
Hello Forum
I guy wants to sell me this cap, I am in doubt is it a repro or real ?
Regards
John
This is an East German cap on which someone has slapped a combination of an SS eagle and an army cockade/wreath.
Its a one look fake. It is a rebadged post war East German visor cap. A complete and terrible fake.
Poor attempt at trying to replicate a Third Reich visor. If you see the stamp inside "NVA - Nationale Volksaree" (Army of East Germany) you can determine that is a typical post war cap. You should find many examples of these fakes on the forum.
I don't know caps, but I believe I can say with a fair degree of certainty that it's a fake! It's got an SS eagle with Heer cockade. Also, isn't NVA the Nationale Volksarmee (DDR)?
EDIT: Beaten to it a record number of times!
Hi HPL
Yes I knew it, thanks a lot, one can find NVA on Google, it is a poor copy:
Volkspolizei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NVA in this case means - Not Valuable Antique
Last edited by meyle77; 03-19-2014 at 08:32 PM.
I like it! I think I will start using that one!
That being said, NVA stuff isn't completely not valuable. There is a reasonable collector base for it. The problem is there is an absolutely ridicules amount of it, so there's much more supply than demand. I like to think that in 20 years it will be profoundly valuable and I will be able to sell off my NVA collection for thousands, but that's probably not going to happen.
That should be Nationale Volksarmee.
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