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top the Beaver cap, bottom, mine, ex Stadnicki, i.e. the great departed SA collector.

954740954741Zum Beispiel

The top is the "officer version" and the bottom is ex Beaver and on auction now.

I am comfortable with the bottom, but will leave the top example to you.

Happy...

954738Thanks. I have seen the Tuchmuetze tag in these Feldmuetzen before. This cap is just far too good to be true, but I am surely not an expert
in such caps. I owned several of the black and...

954678954679Something I am not sure about.

Bravo.

And this example well illustrates the range of the possible in fact versus the dogmatic insistence by some for a kind of standardization that was utterly alien in the epoch and actually alien to the...

407108407109407110For myself, the only way to ascertain this issue really is a minute inspection. The fakes are only superficially like the originals when you have the thing in your hand.
As Bob...

407019407020407017407018407021407022407023407024Decades ago as a young person one bought and sold this stuff without any real sense of the potential it has in the year 2012. It all existed on the...

Neither the Hoheitszeichen nor the tag send me, really.

406965406966406967406968406969Thank you, Bob, a valuable story of merit. For many who read these lines the world of half century ago is too distant a time.
For those of us who began to collect...

All these images will accomplish is to improve fakes and snare the innocent in expensive traps.....

405630405629Compare the Hritz cap (left) and the one that was formerly mine. In any case, the piece has a fine home in an excellent collection.

405860405625The SSTV cap. I had one like this forty years ago..... f o r t y y e a r s a g o.


I think it is one of these in the Shea Beaver book, actually.

PS This cap is not...

a hunk of junk.

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Yes. Such is further evidence to my contention that the originals of these were present in the biotope in my younger years, as well as those of other...

405408405409405410405411405402405403405404405405405406405407405396405397405398405399405400405401405394405395Dear Sir, I am not at all sure about pedigree, but there is some continuity here to be...

405385405384405382405383Item 1237 illustrated in the year 1978, 1981, and 2012.

405381Here is an auction catalog from 1978 with such a field cap included.

405345405346405347405348405349405248405249405250405251405252405253405254405255405256405257405258405259405260405246Time and its refuse.

405245The tag in my ex cap above is identical to this one.

405197When I started collecting in the 1960s, there were many examples of unissued items in their number, as in army Tellermuetzen, DAK uniforms, Luftwaffe Fliegerblusen for the enlisted ranks, DAK...

405027405026405024405025Thanks to my colleagues for the RZM tag survey.
The problem with all of this is really quite simple. Most people have never handled real material, and in this instance, a...

This species of tag was introduced in late 1934 and was phased out, I think, ca. 1936.

I am fairly certain that the one on the right above is a fake.

The Shea Beaver book also has image of authentic items of this type as a guide, as does the Saris book.

Plainly the backgrounds of the RZM and runics is either black or white.

I have picture of the interior of mine from the 1970s, as the one I presently own is washed out.

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