Very nice and interesting caps. The Steiermark cap maker is especially interesting, or the Steiermark militaria retailer....
Very nice and interesting caps. The Steiermark cap maker is especially interesting, or the Steiermark militaria retailer....
Very nice visor caps.
You are off to a flying start!
Some very nice visors.
Although I do not collect German items my self,
I can always appreciate the very fine items many of you own.
To restate what Mr. Mint suggests, especially when it comes to SS peaked caps, do engage the peanut gallery here, since this kind of cap is the most treacherous for the beginner.
There are a few sound sources, none of which is cheap. As my colleague suggests, the best way with this material is to keep touch with those collectors with the real items
who then dispose of them.
Mr. Mint also has assembled a heap of questionable or conflicted SS caps, as well as a smaller heap of more or less real ones.
The grey SS caps are a particular realm of danger, but the black ones are no poem, either, if you do not know what you are doing.
and there is no excuse for same, now, since you can easily get sound advice here.
Peter Jenkins has real SS caps on his site, as does Hannah's Reich. These are the UK sites that spring to mind for me. "Ulrich of England" does as well, I believe.
I am not familiar with the bio-tope there, since there are many, many here who are.
http://www.ssbw.co.uk/viewphoto.php?shoph=50168&phqu=10
You have chosen well. As for Your earlier "dud"?
Well it reminds Me of the saying ...If We learn from our mistakes then Im getting a good education" lol
The NYT had an article on "grit" the other day as a factor of intelligence and career success. That is, bourgeois success derives from the will to carry on despite set backs. The key with all of this is to wield knowledge against ignorance and to do so over a long time, without getting awfully distracted by the loud, bright, but also more or less meaningless hectoring on these sites. There is a minority of decent and helpful people, especially here. Our moderators allow us to operate free of falling objects
and gunmen in the doorway, for which we thank them.
There are so many details and arcane facts with all of this for the beginner, and much of what obtains as knowledge among a small circle of loud mouths is anything but.
Once more, perhaps the best resource on this site is contained here:
Muetzenfabrik
Your new caps are very nice. The best benefit of them is to take a lupe and examine them closely for fifteen minutes or half and hour and to do so every week.
Do this often, and, in the process, the details become second nature.
With this close analysis of the item in your mental reserves, the coup d' oeil becomes easier.
Examination of the real thing strengthens the real critical faculties, whereas the digital pictures often are misleading and do not appear as the thing in real life.
The "scull" images are especially misleading this way. That is, the nuisance SS cap badges.
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