Yes, Virginia, They Did (and Do) Make Fakes of Common Visors

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Very nice page evokes a different and simpler world in which these things were plentiful.

[stonemint]

Attachment 486023This cap, which Mr. Mint has admired, cost me USD 35 in 1970, as I recall. Or in 1971. In case doubt adheres, I bought this very same cap at said time and trade it away a couple of years later.
This was an almost unused Wellhausen army Jaeger cap.

& still admire!!!

[Friedrich-Berthold]

& still admire!!!

I had the chance to buy it back in the early 1990s, but the person who had it had not taken very good care of it, actually, and it had suffered over time, which really made me angry. The person who had it was also highly abrasive and was constantly trying to tell me things about German military history that were very, very over his pay grade. He was a person who deliberately spread disinformation to scare off the competition, a thing he learned from the glamor dealer here.
But the Wellhausen Jaeger cap did cost me 35 dollars either in 1970 or 1971......I was very proud of it, to be sure, and it was in wonderful shape.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I wish I had this one, too. It is a silk grey SS cap that I got a couple of years later.

[ObKrieger]

The person who had it was also highly abrasive and was constantly trying to tell me things about German military history that were very, very over his pay grade.

Aren't those people the best?

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Aren't those people the best?

"to each his own...."

[FMS-Paul]

Great information and attention to detail Chris & Friedrich, well done guys I applaud your work.

[S.Vestae]

Well, I would like the cap in hands, but it's not a original body cap with fake lining restored post war ?...

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Aren't those people the best?

Such people are as common as dirt and impose a huge tax on any sane person's patience and good manners.

They are followed by the ones with the fish stories and other tall tales, especially of whole, complete, untouched black SS uniforms being had at hock shops for a quarter or the price of a "Big Mac" and such.

[kirby]

$35 wasn't cheap in 1970. I started collecting in 72-73 and you could buy a real nice SA dagger for under $50. Most common belt buckles and badges were $5-10. $35 would buy almost a hundred gallons on gas.