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11-27-2011 08:03 PM
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Re: Paul Kaps SS General's Schirmmeutze - potentially!
The Paul Kaps Jaeger cap I once owned had the same interior, to include the black visor underside piece. But I have no idea based on this, you people have more insight into Paul Kaps head wear than I. I should not have sold the one I had, really. I seem to sell all the Jaeger caps, include Gebirgsjaeger caps, to boot. Many real SS caps were denazified and do indeed end up with junky badges.
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Re: Paul Kaps SS General's Schirmmeutze - potentially!
Dear friend, as you know, I have a particular fondness for this maker and wish I had been around when you sold the Jaeger cap!
When looking at hats made by Kaps after all these years, there is usualy a distinctive flaring of the centre band towards the bottom. This is due to a rather unique feature which is a metal spring that is directly sewn onto the pasteboard around the front half of the hat. I fully expect to see this feature in the cap above.
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Re: Paul Kaps SS General's Schirmmeutze - potentially!
Donnerwetter. I have no idea that the cap I owned had a metal spring beyond the ones in the cap cover. What refined and subtle research you do. I guess the additional spring keeps the shape further.
In any case, the Kaps cap did I de accession early in the last decade, along with the Lubstein mountain troop cap, and the Welhausen cap I traded off before you were even born, I think.
I hope the cap in Italy is real. It looks ok from the inside aspect.
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Re: Paul Kaps SS General's Schirmmeutze - potentially!
There is also this cap known to you and me, of course.
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Re: Paul Kaps SS General's Schirmmeutze - potentially!
and one of the high rollers who skulks around on the other site has a Kap Pz cap with SS insignia, I think, am I mistaken? All fractured and broken bits of the past that intrude into a present laden with paranoia, conspiracy theories, and much bad behavior by people who fully know better.
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Re: Paul Kaps SS General's Schirmmeutze - potentially!
Notice the exact same flaring around the centre band.
The General's cap does have a different crown profile altogether and something I had to look twice at but it's still well within the realms of period cap design.
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Re: Paul Kaps SS General's Schirmmeutze - potentially!
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Friedrich-Berthold
and one of the high rollers who skulks around on the other site has a Kap Pz cap with SS insignia, I think, am I mistaken?
Indeed he does FB. I have photos of it somewhere...
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Re: Paul Kaps SS General's Schirmmeutze - potentially!
Oh, yes, I recall your dissection of same. All too droll. Please do not tell the fakers everything, since they trawl here enough as it is.
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