SS nco GJ M43

**BenVK** · 12-18-2011, 09:20 PM

Personally, I like this cap very much but I also know from experience that some collectors will be very nervous of the lining material. So, I think it's very brave of Mauro to show it and I thank him for doing so.

I might have got this next observation completely wrong, forgive me if I have but does this lining material have Italian origins? I think I read many years ago that this blue/grey material was considered to be associated with period Regia Aeronautica cloth?

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 12-18-2011 09:20 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Mauro C** · 12-18-2011, 11:15 PM

no problem! Imo this lining it's fully acceptable, i like it moreover on early m43. I saw some unquestionable m43 caps with a lining like this that you can found on other German stuffs.
If you want i will send you pictures where you could examine lining sewing / bulding methods.

**Mauro C** · 12-18-2011, 11:28 PM

[QUOTE=Mauro C;435446] I saw some unquestionable m43 caps with a lining like this that you can found on other German stuffs.
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SS Hohenstaufen tunic

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 12-19-2011, 12:03 AM

Another handsome piece with patina from a fine collection. What a nice contrast in these images to the endless parade of ludicrous field caps made the day before yesterday and foisted on a credulous and helpless public in an unending stream of garish pictures.

**Adrian Stevenson** · 12-19-2011, 10:04 AM

Thanks for sharing it with us. I like it too!

Cheers, Ade.

**Dimas** · 12-19-2011, 10:19 AM

Imo it is a very normal lining, which is one side colored ( reverse is white), that is the same methodic used on the same way as applyed on camouflage