early SS officer's cap.

[Eric Zentner]

I forget who is big brother here but what is a few months?
I think Bob called him the ole man to me

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Bill Shea is somewhat older by a few weeks or month than Bob Coleman.
In any case, I count them both as colleagues and guides to me in my search for foetid head wear.
In the year 2012, and in the part of the U.S. in which I live, age is surely a curse and only a cause for reproach.
To be sure, I do not subscribe to this view, as I am old, too, but a few years junior to my betters.
I respect experience and the wisdom that might accrue from it. For myself, I embarked on a struggle to learn about Nazi Germany from a tender age and make some strides each day even in the autumn of life.
I never subscribed to the cult of youth when I was young, either. It irritated me, all the hula hoops, and surf boards and the like.
Pfui.

[Eric Zentner]

And god bless them both,and I have met them both.

Eric

[Eric Zentner]

So how about a new HD camera for those black woolens? For xmas..

Eric

[Friedrich-Berthold]

This cap is noteworthy, as it seems to be of very early shape (very low crown) yet has the RZM tag.
It has some signs of wear, but is in a fine state of preservation. The other cap of this type I own is similar, but has no tag, or it fell out with the passage of time.

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I believe this brown tag is the first of its type.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Such tags....as used in most types of NSDAP, SA, SS, HJ and so on headwear of the first years after 1933.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

This tag was introduced in late 1934.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

foetid headwear across the gulf of time.

[SteveR]

Outstanding cap FB.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Outstanding cap FB.

Thanks. The thing is not found every day. It is the first I have seen in forty four years with the RZM tag of this type.