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860415860416860417books and not so books.

Thank you. Not 100% of my illustrations in the posts above are mine, but many are as illustrated here. All the best to you,...

278324278325278327278328278329278330278332278333278334278335278336278337278338278339278340278341278342278344278345278346278347Authentic examples of this kind of thing are concentrated in a few...

278132This is a fake of similar era from another maker, which was of much higher quality.

Thanks. Bob has much more experience than I do, but this is surely one of the Atwood fakes of the golden past. They were not as well made as others, i.e. Erich Beinhorn or even Kupper, which I...

I am sure others will offer their opinions here and no one is enjoined to take my statement as the last word.
There are hundreds of images of the Atwood Berlins aelteste Muetzenfabrik caps in...

Also, your cap is an Atwood cap in a more or less original state of repair, and it is collectable as it is. It is not worth what an original black SS general's cap would fetch, of course, but it...

278030278022278023278024278025278026278027278028278029This site has more images of authentic black SS caps than anywhere in the whole wide world.

278013278014278015278016278017278018278019278020278021Authentic caps generally have one of either of these types of linings.

278010Your cap is a 1960s fake commissioned by an ex US Army Major who was the king of put together daggers. Originally the cap had the phrase "Berlin's Oldest Cap Factory," with a location on the...

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250882250883250884250867250868250869250870250871250872250873250874250875250876250877250878250879250880250881thanks for your interest in this thread.

250851250852250853250854250855250856250857250858250859250860250861250862250863250864250865250866Clemens Wagner caps of this date and make often have loose bands and peaks, not the least because...

All hail the hopes we nourished in the past and the huge sums of that distant moment, which now seem somewhat absurd. The first black SS uniform I secured forty years ago cost all of 275 dollars in...

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Thanks for yours. I like images of authentic...

To be very frank, I do not know the prices at which these things truly change hands....
I merely offer these images to the collector world as a foot note, and likely a meaningless one.
However,...

The Hayes cap is the normal model of officer's cap, that is, a non Sonderanfertigung cap.

250030250031250032250033250034250035250036Fourteen thousand five hundred dollars, which is less than the other for sale on a well known site.

250011250012250013250014250015250016I already own more than one of these objects....

Arthur Hayes, whose work of the early 1990s pioneered a genre of colored picture books on this material, has this cap for sale. I detest the phrase "textbook," as no thing really existed in real...