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04-03-2009 11:50 PM
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Re: Allgemeine SS Visor Cap - II
I should note that the cap with the black interior was distinguished from the Sonderanfertigung style (with the traditional silken color of custard or pumpkin shade) in price and quality of materials. The latter seems to have been used for a brief period, i.e. from 1934 until 1937/8, and then phased out, or no longer offered with the golden runics &c. Yet such caps continued to be made for enlisted ranks....go figure. Of course, this assertion is based on having seen a little fraction of all SS caps ever made, surely.
In any case, thanks for showing us. Our site here casts a light in what is otherwise a growing darkness.
I ask colleagues Hritz, Coleman, Peter and d'Alquen to add or subtract for any hare brained generalizations I may have proffered here that are off target.
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Re: Allgemeine SS Visor Cap - II
One last (ignorant), and perhaps superfluous question, if you do not mind:
The dollar amount of that tag (then and NOW) equates to what in conversion?
Just curious...
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!
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Re: Allgemeine SS Visor Cap - II
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RichieC
One last (ignorant), and perhaps superfluous question, if you do not mind:
The dollar amount of that tag (then and NOW) equates to what in conversion?
Just curious...
USD 2.62 I think, if the exchange rate in 1939 was four RM to the US dollar. Someone has to check.
DM were phased out in this decade with the Euro, but some here can do the exchange rate for now. It would be about 5 to 7 bucks in any case, I think, depending on things.
The cap today is worth much, much more, surely.
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Re: Allgemeine SS Visor Cap - II
One last question this evening as I need to depart from here to prepare dinner for the wife and myself... No excuse, but that's it.
The difference between an officer's cap and a soldier's cap (when SS is concerned) is only the chinstrap, yes?
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!
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Re: Allgemeine SS Visor Cap - II
I now read that one RM was worth 40 cents in 1938, which surprises me, but there you are. Of course, the question now is what is the value of 40 cents in 1938 dollars today. These caps were not especially expensive in their day, in contrast to what is said in certain secondary hat books. It is easy enough to compare said prices with that of other objects as well as monthly pay scales for SS officers or Army officers. I have all of these somewhere, but will leave same to others.
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