M34 SS VT side cap, Otto Schlientz, Straubing

**Generaladmiral** · 10-05-2016, 04:55 PM

Hello friends. What is your opinion on these M34 SS VT side cap ? The manufacturer is difficult to read. "Otto Schlientz, Straubing". Real or Fake? Best regards, Guido

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-05-2016 04:55 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-05-2016, 10:21 PM

Quite awful, in fact.

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Might I ask what is going on with this barrage of new members and a heap of junky SS caps?

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-05-2016, 10:22 PM

Are we supposed to be the examination service for a group of new fakes?

Am I missing something here?

**Generaladmiral** · 10-06-2016, 08:18 AM

Hello, excuse my question. I thought in a "Cap Authentication" forum you can get help from experts. The fakes are getting better and I'm not an expert. I bought this cap, but it can give back. I was unsure about the originality. Thanks for your help.

**John Brandon** · 10-06-2016, 09:08 AM

The answer you was looking for was in the first post from FB. it is in fact quite terrible, and I love the stamp inside. I don't think that anything was meant by the reply, but to do a little research can save a lot of heartache

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-06-2016, 05:29 PM

by Generaladmiral

Hello, excuse my question. I thought in a "Cap Authentication" forum you can get help from experts. The fakes are getting better and I'm not an expert. I bought this cap, but it can give back. I was unsure about the originality. Thanks for your help.

Your cap is fake. It is one of such items of below average fake SS headwear that appears here hourly. Do not buy a cap of this type if you have not beforehand deepened yourself in very subtle details. If you are, as you say, a new member, then the duty devolves on you to look around here somewhat, in order to find hundreds of relevant posts offered by
persons well informed. The amateur in SS regalia poses a threat to himself and deprives others of precious time and effort because of being ill prepared and often just reckless. I make no apologies to you for my response. The grey SS side cap with the nickel and otherwise button and the small Hoheitszeichen are extremely rare and widely faked. Very widely faked. All of these boat caps are faked by the thousands now and clog up all the websites like sewerage.

Might I close by suggesting to you that your expertise and my expertise diverge very sharply, and you are surely without any right to question mine.

**John Brandon** · 10-06-2016, 05:52 PM

by Friedrich-Berthold

Might I close by suggesting to you that your expertise and my expertise diverge very sharply, and you are surely without any right to question mine.

well said FB

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-06-2016, 06:16 PM

by John Brandon

well said FB

Dear Colleague, in fact, I should keep my temper in check, but the barrage of fake SS caps does strike me as more than a coincidence and I am inclined to
suspicion in a ever more paranoid world. And, when a beginner tries to lecture me about expertise, then I am enjoined to offer a fitting response.
Thanks for your steadfast role here and greetings to the Isle of Man.

The chance to get away from the digital sledge hammer and to gaze out at a seascape full of the majesty of nature on a windy shore appeals to me. I never do it anymore, even though I could where I live. But the romance and wonder of the sea is somehow lessened by the ease with which niggling balderdash vomits up on my screen
each minute, whereby the global commons deprives space and time of their majesty and wonder. Not a good thing.