cleaning and restoration of the cap that came with some history

**spandau** · 03-14-2012, 11:16 PM

Hi

Always a tricky question....to restore or not ?

This is one I decided to work on. It had been in storage for a long time and had been attacked by moths, the leather had dried out and the buttons and buckles had rusted.

Apart from this it was mint !

Here are pics as it was....

cleaning and restoration of the cap that came with some history

Really interesting pasteboard for the cap construction fans. It is white and a kind of "elastic" type material. never seen it before and the moths didn't like it either.

Here comes the re-vamped offering....

cheers

tony

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 03-14-2012 11:16 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**AMTG** · 03-14-2012, 11:43 PM

Wow, nice work.....did you do this?

**spandau** · 03-14-2012, 11:47 PM

Hi

Yes it was all my own work but it's hard to do and I'm not ready to compete with Ben VK for restoration work just yet !

cheers

tony

**Koguryo9** · 03-14-2012, 11:49 PM

Impressive work Tony! And a very nice hat from Daniel!

I have a similar Panzer visor plagued by moth damage (not as pervasive as this one though) that I was hoping Ben would help me repair.. :-)

**BenVK** · 03-14-2012, 11:51 PM

Great job Tony! couldn't have done better myself. Where did you "harvest" the wool from?

White elastic type pasteboard? I think I know what you mean. It's perfectly normal.

**S.Vestae** · 03-15-2012, 12:37 AM

Ben please, restore this one...lol

**AMTG** · 03-15-2012, 12:43 AM

That looks great as is!!!

**spandau** · 03-15-2012, 11:15 AM

Ben

I was lucky as the cloth on the side panels had been well preserved, especially on the "underhang" of the crown. Gave me just enough to do the repair.

cheers

tony