does this look like an Original wartime SS cap?
SS visor
does this look like an Original wartime SS cap?
Nope...the absurd obviously done on purpose skull outline is a give away...
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
You are correct on that, fakes do almost Always have these 'over the top' skull imprints. However, this is not the way to tell wheter or not it is an orginal cap. Real ones can have imprints too.by Wagriff
Nope...the absurd obviously done on purpose skull outline is a give away...
I didn't say it was The proof...just that it's a usual give away...We don't need to constantly tell the fake makers what they need to do differently to pass off and sell their trash.
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
The correct answer to this question could be misleading, as it is: yes, it does LOOK LIKE an original cap - but that is already it. What makes me think are the imprints of the cap cords which were twisted z-wise (see the thread on reverse-twisted cap cords) and the sweat-shield which seems to be plastic, something that would have to be checked with the piece in hand. I'm eager to read the opinion of the specialists.
Last edited by ErWeSa; 06-03-2017 at 09:04 AM.
The original ebay.de text (see here: 2.WK Elite Schirmm):
100% Original vor 1945. Mottenspuren siehe Bilder. Die Mütze muss wieder in Form gebracht werden, sie ist etwas verzogen. So unberührt wohl nur äußerst selten zu finden. Größe ca. 56. Der Soldat war bei Nordland. Der Artikel befindet sich im unberührten und ungereinigten Fundzustand. Den genauen Zustand, eventuelle Maße sowie weitere Details entnehmen Sie bitte den Bildern unter dem Text.
Bei den Artikeln handelt es sich ausschließlich um originale Dachboden oder Scheunenfunde aus Beräumungen, noch nicht in Sammlerhand gewesen, unberührt, ungereinigt so wie vorgefunden!!
Same seller:
2.WK Schirmm
The Trikotage here is not unlike this
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 06-03-2017 at 12:31 AM.
Of what is or is not the wartime variant of this item, there is a golden custard interior and a grey interior variant.
I agree with Wolfgang that this item may be authentic. The only way to ascertain it is to examine it.
At the same time, the chopped up legion fakes are everywhere, and do often have the imprint of a Totenschaedel etc.
The Lindensamt here also looks right, in fact, the whole thing has the age and posture of something lost in an attic for
more than half a century.
I am happy to be proven wrong, but I own more than one of these things, and the trikotage is very distinct.
The plessier of the lining is also that of a professional.
In 1970, I bought one of these, the first grey SS officer's cap I ever owned, and it had a brown cotton lining in the brown shirt shade. It was a very nice cap.
It cost USD 80, which was a ton of dough.
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