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Gestapo hat!
Hello all.
Showed Chris ( Stonemint ) this one the other day and he liked it.
So wanted to share it here aswell...
Saw one of Stonemint´s threads on sd and gestapo headgear and i do have an alleged gestapo hat coming from an estate of a widow who´s husband alledgely was in the gestapo here i Denmark.
I have no other provenance other than her Words to back it up!
Sold in the thirtees-fourtees in a hat shop in Copenhagen, Imported from Germany.
very nice materials... Think the hat style is called HOMBURG sure someone will know...
Just a funny item in the Collection...
enjoy.
Best regards,
Lt. Col
Ullergaard
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10-01-2018 02:07 PM
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Last edited by Watchdog; 10-01-2018 at 04:43 PM.
Reason: PS
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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Well, it's definitely....errrr.....a hat!
nice story too......enjoy it!
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Yes, Gestapo connection aside the Homburg hat is thought to have come to wider public attention after King Edward VII visited the tourist resort of Bad Homburg in Germany in the late 19th century and picked up what was to become something of a fashion icon at the hat factory there.
However, Kaiser Wilhelm II had worn a very similar hat whilst hunting for some years earlier.
A truly iconic hat throughout the world for many decades but undeniably German and of course thanks to the 20th century film industry indellibly linked to those nasty chaps in black leather trench coats.
See how this hobby of ours leads in so many directions?
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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Watchdog
Yes, Gestapo connection aside the Homburg hat is thought to have come to wider public attention after King Edward VII visited the tourist resort of Bad Homburg in Germany in the late 19th century and picked up what was to become something of a fashion icon at the hat factory there.
However, Kaiser Wilhelm II had worn a very similar hat whilst hunting for some years earlier.
A truly iconic hat throughout the world for many decades but undeniably German and of course thanks to the 20th century film industry indellibly linked to those nasty chaps in black leather trench coats.
See how this hobby of ours leads in so many directions?
Regards
Mark
Thank you Mark for a fine explanation
Learned someting today aswell...
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Mark,
Thanks for the picture of Kim Hartmann...
That made this whole thread for me!
(I’ve gone all wobbly now).
Bob
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...I wasn't trying to be sarcastic...sorry if it came across that way.......
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Composite
...I wasn't trying to be sarcastic...sorry if it came across that way.......
My apologies Composite
Best
Lt. Col
Ullergaard
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