Heer Propaganda Officer's Visor Cap

[militariacoll]

The crown sweat shield is celluloid. Gray piped. The cap does have a couple Pekuro mfg. similarities. Mid to late war..? Janke..? Any and all opinions welcome!

[stonemint]

Thanks for posting this here.
This is not a Janke or a ground up fake.

WH propaganda visors are one of the rarest 'farbes, and are heavily faked (usually by taking good caps apart and replacing the piping with gray)--what we call a "Frankenstein".

IMHO, this is one of them.

[ErWeSa]

If I didn't know that piping was changed (the Welnhausen catalogue prooves it) I wouldn't believe it.

It still amazes me, how people did it and it amazes me even more that there are still people out there who can do it so masterly as in the piece above (if the piping was really changed in this cap). It would mean to disassemble the cap almost completely and to then reassemble it again which is very difficult as the disassembling makes the fabric fringe, the parts have to be "eingearbeitet" and "gezogen" (the fabric has to be pushed/pulled in certain places) otherwise they don't fit any more, the cardboard-stiffener of the centerband has to be changed, most likely the lining and sweatband, too and even the peak - unless one resews it by hand, as one can't sew precisely in the holes of the previous stiches by using a special sewing machine and the Vulkanfiber visor would break if there are too many stiching holes.

I'd love to see somebody do it - one could learn a lot.

The oakleaf-wreath is positioned a bit too high on this cap.