Allgemiene SS NCO Visor for Analysis

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Some one should ask him, don't you think? Maybe the document there on the desk in the Prinz Albrechtstrasse is the Rosetta stone of "scull" makers so sought by inquiring minds in the 21st century?

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The Ehrenwinkel on his sleeve was important to him, too.

In real life, it looks like this.....

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Or this....mit der Grundlage.

[stonemint]

Does someone else have an opinion of this piece? Surely others have something of merit to add here other than myself?

There is always more to learn to be sure.

F-B, you always say (and explain) it better than most of us could.

[Walkwolf]

Some one should ask him, don't you think? Maybe the document there on the desk in the Prinz Albrechtstrasse is the Rosetta stone of "scull" makers so sought by inquiring minds in the 21st century?

....Probably just the luncheon menu.................. !

[Friedrich-Berthold]

F-B, you always say (and explain) it better than most of us could.

Thank you for the kind words; but, in fact, the unknown unknowns here are manifest.

There is so much more to know, really, and my little foray into Uniformen Markt reveals a vista ahead of us or behind us that is pretty enticing, don't you think?

There was a reportage on good ole Wuppertal on Deutsche Welle today, to the effect that the town is bankrupt because of the structural decline of employment in western Germany. It was quite sad and made me think of the cap makers that were once there; that is, of the people who made and wore these caps in their time. I was in Bonn recently for business, and how it has changed without the capital and without the world I knew as a student nearly forty years ago in the early 1970s. The people I knew there then are mostly gone too, and the sight of the throngs downtown are so different from former times. There was a wonderful hat store in Bonn, too, which I liked a lot. It is gone, too, of course.
I am like Booth Tarkington and the Magnificent Ambersons, I guess.

Es lebe die Sonderanfertigung.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

....Probably just the luncheon menu.................. !

Bravo, well said.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Apropos Booth Tarkington and Orson Welles and the brand of nostalgia that afflicts me.

PS there is no SS cap skull in this picture, either.

I wonder if Hitler saw this movie, since he saw a lot of US films, as did Goebbels?

Sorry to swerve from the topic, but the mention of the luncheon menu has unsettled me.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The price list with the mention of the cost of said cap at the head of this thread.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The Sonderanfertigung tag even to be found in actual caps, go figure!