SS crush cap?

**BenVK** · 01-14-2012, 12:26 AM

I'll leave it to you gentlemen to decide..

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 01-14-2012 12:26 AM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 01-14-2012, 05:29 PM

An item of this kind is in the Wilkins book. That is, the illustration in Ben's post

While I find it very unaesthetic, the red felt backing of the Totenschaedel was actually done in some cases. However, not in any of the more than one cap that is my property.

The cap posted at the head of this thread is a Janke. And Bob C called it right, as he always does.
There does exist a wonderful Paul Kaps artillery field cap which we have pictured over and over again. It is as nice as the piece at the start of this thread is a piece of ----.

Happy hats. Can I get a penny for each post like this?

**BenVK** · 01-14-2012, 05:42 PM

At a penny a post FB, I don't think we could afford you!

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 01-14-2012, 05:47 PM

Thank you, Ben, my putting a price tag on myself fits the spirit of the time. The original person who posted, true to form, has not responded after unearthing a roaring pile of ----.
Oh well. Go look again at this, which is a nice hat, but no "crusher."

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 01-14-2012, 05:49 PM

My new grey cap is minus the cap spring, or the extra cap spring, as it were. And, even though it is from 1938, it has no RZM tag. You should come here and look at it. It has an Ersatz sweat band in the same color as the leather sweat bands in black caps of the same date.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 01-14-2012, 05:51 PM

I find the "crusher" thing to be far too droll. Someone should buy the nice one in Germany, actually. Real ones do appear, and then most people are so confused they cannot recognize a real one. Ben has a wonderful field cap, of which he should be very proud.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 01-14-2012, 05:59 PM

For the orientation of the readers here, this is the prototype field cap, ca. 1926. Of course, the old armies wore a similar cap, introduced at a much earlier date. This item is courtesy of Bill Shea, who takes vacations with the money I give him. In return, I steal his pictures. However, for those of you seized with the word "crusher" along with "crimped" and "prongs...." then save these images.