Not mint but ...

[butschekantiques]

Thanks Tony! Very nice!

[M18922]

My minty cap.



Cheers, Patrick

[Koguryo9]

Congrats Klaus for the sale, but I must say the winning price is just crazy. $4000 for a Luftwaffe officer visor?

[N.C. Wyeth]

Congrats Klaus for the sale, but I must say the winning price is just crazy. $4000 for a Luftwaffe officer visor?

I agree . . . but let's be real . . . this is the world we live in today - survival of the fittest, at it's best.

Klaus is obviously smiling . . . and honestly . . . what we are witnessing here [or, at least what I have been told to believe] is a GENUINE dose of pure Capitalism in display . . . we should all now be smiling - right?

So . . . the remaining question is . . . when this fellow opts to sell out - how many people will step up to raise-the-bar . . . and offer much more than the sale price listed at this auction?

I say, this is nothing more than what we have all come down to - banking on the future . . . I am sure the day will come, when $4K seems ludicrous to most of us "contemporary" collectors . . . the question is - when will that day of reward finally come around?

Absolutely maginificent cap too, by the way . . . if I had $4K that didn't mean that much to me . . . I would not have thought twice!

[stonemint]

I agree . . . but let's be real . . . this is the world we live in today - survival of the fittest, at it's best.

Klaus is obviously smiling . . . and honestly . . . what we are witnessing here [or, at least what I have been told to believe] is a GENUINE dose of pure Capitalism in display . . . we should all now be smiling - right?

So . . . the remaining question is . . . when this fellow opts to sell out - how many people will step up to raise-the-bar . . . and offer much more than the sale price listed at this auction?

I say, this is nothing more than what we have all come down to - banking on the future . . . I am sure the day will come, when $4K seems ludicrous to most of us "contemporary" collectors . . . the question is - when will that day of reward finally come around?

Absolutely maginificent cap too, by the way . . . if I had $4K that didn't mean that much to me . . . I would not have thought twice!

$4000? With the mothing? Psychotic--had to have been a bidding war. A pre-war minty Erel went for less than $1000 in Gottliebs last auction....

[Karl S.]

Yes Klaus it's a beauty.

Here's mine that a bought from Tony Jessen a few years ago. I guess the price would be a real bargain now a days.

[Karl S.]

Here's my late war Erel Privat General's. I don't believe it was used, if so not much.Attachment 427244Attachment 427245Attachment 427246Attachment 427247Attachment 427248Attachment 427249Attachment 427250Attachment 427252

[spandau]

HI

very nice caps karl.

cheers

tony

[MD Helmets]

$4000 for that visor?! Guess I'll be sticking to helmets...well worn helmets.

[stonemint]

Here is what I call getting back down to earth. This lovely mint wartime Erel with the rare doeskin wool body just went for $1200 on the Red forum: