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07-08-2011 05:29 PM
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Circuit advertisement
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Re: a black SS officer's cap of early make
Tags are not my bailiwick either. Hat looked good back in 2007. If a ground-up repro, I am surprised that we have not seen more of them since then.
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
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Re: SS EM Visor for Review
OK, posts moved here. Regarding this cap's discussion as to what makes it a fake, we have agreed to keep in private so as to not aid the fakers. The consensus is among the SS collectors that this is a fake of recent vintage, and there are more than this one. I have not seen this type of fake before until this one. Obviously, it has its charactersitics, so avoid any one you see that looks like this one.
Last edited by stonemint; 07-08-2011 at 08:23 PM.
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
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Re: SS EM Visor for Review
Thank you. I think if you compare the chin strap to originals, you will also find oddities. There are more details that make this well made fake dangerous, and it is has existed since the middle of the last decade. Robert Hassler made a useful post on the website I detest to this effect. I am not alone in my harsh judgment, joined as I am by another noted collector authority who shall remain anonymous.
If this seems like McCarthyism, then I did not start it, and I am sorry, but my work on these site has done a great deal of damage in retrospect, and I feel akin to Robert Oppenheimer having invented the A bomb.
In the end, we have improved the fakes which have damaged others. I do not know how to address this problem, but I see no reason to be the murder board for a central European fake ring that has access to rich resources to make good fakes.
The result will be to damage my own collection and investment in it, though that has never been my primary goal.
Perhaps the above explains my anger and frustration in my posts above.
sapere aude.
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Re: SS EM Visor for Review
My goal in the past has been solely to illustrate authentic items, or what I have thought to be thus, as well as to encourage such figures as d'Alquen to share his remarkable primary sources, the sum of which should enable the collector to make his or her way.
The autopsy of fakes is all well and good, to be sure, but I hate check lists, think the term "textbook" is idiotic, and also believe that the false security that the check list approach gives to the poorly informed collector is a crutch which will then break in the real stresses and strains of this odd and peculiar world.
On the other site, of course, the discussion about all of this is as half cocked as such usually is, and surely, you who read this can ignore and or greet what I have written with peals of laughter and running noses of mirth.
The devil is in the detail in all things, and the close study of details, even with electric pictures, has its merits.
There is no harm, either, in owning more than one of these items, which in many cases is an impossibility for young collectors of beginners with a rich purse and little experience, as I know from my correspondence.
I, for one, am just sick and tired of how these debates always end in a donnybrook.
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Re: SS EM Visor for Review
I will also chime in on this piece. In the late 90's, I was taken in by an earlier genreation of this faker. The work is very good but the truth is in the details.
BOB
LIFE'S LOSERS NEVER LEARN FROM THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS.
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Re: SS EM Visor for Review
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 07-09-2011 at 04:08 AM.
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