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Re: SS Officers Tunic
A voice from the past on the unknown unknowns of our interest.....
Which of the gun show know it all's and internet savants has brought such knowledge as contained here to the attention of the collecting public?
How many of them even have been to Cologne or can find it on a map?
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12-17-2010 08:40 PM
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Re: SS Officers Tunic
These are inhabitants of Cologne, some in uniform....but the article makes no reference to them.
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Re: SS Officers Tunic
by
Friedrich-Berthold
The whole thing is really a hall of mirrors in the fun house for so many, which is quite sad. The internet makes all of this seem so near, but it is really so far in the sense that the pictures reveal only a part of the whole. And how can the beginner make sense of the over supply of opinions, websites, savants, know-it-alls in an age where the methodical and plodding acquisition of knowledge via craft and art is a laughable remnant of a silly, distant past. The internet has made pornography omnipresent, it has made all forms of trade universal without the human elements of the market in their positive dimension (i.e. I am thinking of my time looking at fruit and vegetables in central European markets on said day...you can smell the fruit and examine it closely and also examine the person selling it to you as persons and animals have examined each other since the Lord G-d established fruits, vegetables and animals....) and it traps and fools a lot of honest people who want military regalia, but who are not privy to the inner circle without huge sacrifice. I hope our labor here has improved things, but it has also empowered the fakers to make better fakes at the same time, which then trap the novices and not so novices. I am skeptical of the whole thing, really.
Happy holidays all the same and may your "prongs" remain uncrimped, and your Stirndrueckfrei "stitches" conform to the check list of approved makers and their methods of craft. May the spirit of Robert Lubstein fill your stockings not with lumps of coal, but with finely tailored caps (with high 'peaks' which should be called crowns) that place no weight on your furrowed brows, confronted with such diversions to peace and goodwill among humankind as global jihadism, the sovereign debt crisis, disappearing coral atolls, and cosmic boredom in the 21st century.
PS Now that I have peered into the Handbuch d. RZM, I have very bad news for those who adhere to the maker's dogma of holy stitches.....
Lovely prose. Virtually shamanic. Thank you.
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