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[RichieC]

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[RichieC]

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[Friedrich-Berthold]

Thank you. Marvelous pieces in fine condition and of particular quality. Many warm thanks. FB

Mr. Mint will be particularly excited.

You have to deepen yourself in the world of the woman who made the Hoheitszeichen and the Muetzenkranz und Kokarde on the officer's cap, really. What a different sense of time and quality from our own hectic and shabby world. Such embroidery has the same effect on me as do Persian carpets, with their grace, texture, and above, craft of a now unknown type...or at least that I never encounter in the twittering, facebooking present.

Thanks again, and do tell your friend how grateful we are for his willingness to share here.

[stonemint]

F-B, excited is an understatement! Very rare to find a Landzoll officer in bullion with the doeskin wool body. Can your friend make out the maker name? The town appears to be Wuerzburg.
Also, a very rare HPC NCO visor--I had never seen one made by them until now.

Richie, thanks to you and your friend for sharing. Hopefully he will feel comfortable enough to post more here in the future.

[stonemint]

Upon further review, it appears to be Ludwig Fuchs of Wurzburg?

[locloc08]

Images courtesy of a good friend who lacks any computer skills.

However, his fifty plus years of collecting skills and a collection to die for (German and Soviet) eclipse that flaw...

What a beautiful artifact, wow. A testament to a time and an art now lost. I think FB said it best. You don't see such things in the present time of polyester and plastic.

[kirby]

My only example.

[stonemint]

Phenomenal, Kirby (& those Zoll brocades are very rare!)....

[Scout]

Images courtesy of a good friend who lacks any computer skills.

However, his fifty plus years of collecting skills and a collection to die for (German and Soviet) eclipse that flaw...

Simply amazing.
Never seen this one before.
Thanks for showing.
If you hadnt been the one to post it, I would hardly have thought it genuine (due to my limited knowledge of these thus not having seen one like this before).