Waffen-SS M-43 cap, real or fake?

[Johnny Reb]

Waffen-SS M-43 cap, real or fake??

[Adrian Stevenson]

Fake

[Johnny Reb]

Have been told cap is fake, but insignia is good?

[Adrian Stevenson]

Bad as well, sorry.

[Johnny Reb]

Any idea as to how old, who made it???

[CBH]

Does that really matter, it's post-1945 probably more a 1990.

Could be for reenactment, but more likely made as a bottom up fake.

[Johnny Reb]

Probably, more fake then good stuff nowadays.

[stuka f]

Yes.
;-)

[bolewts58]

Probably, more fake then good stuff nowadays.

The understatement of the year.

I stopped collecting Third Reich material in the mid-70s because of the fakes even back then. I remember attending an auction in 1975 at which the catalogue had the standard "Buyer beware" proviso: "Given the large number of theater events and films about the Third Reich over the last 30 years, [name of auction house] cannot 100% guarantee the authenticity of Third Reich items for auction. However, we offer them for sale believing them to be genuine."

[HPL2008]

Probably, more fake then good stuff nowadays.

Not just probably, but definitely and by several orders of magnitude...