Absolutely nice SUPERB Hats, maybe now come better time for happy collecting an prices will be inclinable
thx for all nice entries
Absolutely nice SUPERB Hats, maybe now come better time for happy collecting an prices will be inclinable
thx for all nice entries
I correspond with Wilkins, and he diverges from the views and beliefs of certain internet cap gurus, none of whom post on this particular site and a subject I shall not dwell on further in a public space. Greetings to Britain. Apropos of nothing, and to show how very old I am, I am very sad that Patrick McGoohan died, by the way---but he was another British expatriate to so. California
Our colleague Peter has exceptionally refined taste in such early SS headwear as is shown here in the spaces above, and maybe he can add some examples from his miracle Fundus. I have also refrained from appending the wonderful early caps of colleague d'Alquen, which are a treasure as well.
In another connection, the Beaver/Shea on SS headwear is in the offing or has already appeared. Has someone seen it and can comment on same?
Happy head wear.
Not yet released FB but already discounted?
Amazon.com: The Collector's Guide to Cloth Headgear of the Allgemeine and Waffen-SS:: Michael D. Beaver, William Shea: Books
I look forward to reading said work, surely.
When one looks at the Gehirnbremsen on the caps (Muetzenkordel) on the cover of the book, especially that of the black cap looks as if it is from another size cap.
The Muetzenkordel looks better when it fits, really.
But such a comment is typical of internet cap enthusiast hair splitters...
I wish our friend d'Alquen would finish his book, which I am sure would be the victor in all of this.
But surely the late Beaver and Bill Shea have something to tell us.
When I sold my first cap collection in the early 70's, the last piece to go was a non conforming other ranks black hat. It was of officer quality doeskin wool, 800 silver insignia, a soft leather visor and pebbled silver side buttons with the standard leather strap. The form would date it to 1936/37 as it was saddle shaped. There were no RZM markings and the cap had a standard Pekuro logo in the top. Unfortunately, this unique cap was later modified after I sold it by the addition of an officer's cord, removal of the leather visor aned replacement with a rune marked visor from another cap. Although a rarity, in certain cases, maker marked, non RZM examples did exist.
BOB
LIFE'S LOSERS NEVER LEARN FROM THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS.
This cap is a Mueller cap from 1935/6. It has the maker's logo. It is in the Wilkins book, in fact. It does have other marks, i.e. the stamp on the visor and a white 1935 ish 1936 ish tag. Shea sold this cap at the beginning of the present decade. This cap is typical of many items of this era in which one does indeed see the logo, and the piece was also retailed by the RZM, in fact.
Here is its RZM tag....this tag is also illustrated in the Wilkins book, in fact.
Why this cap has no runes and others from the same maker do at the very same time is something I cannot fathom. Nor do I care, as this is an exceptionally nice cap of great rarity. The endless variations of the past are of great interest and militate against the dogmatist and indoctrinator who wants to take a fragment of the past and bend it to some general theory derived from incomplete evidence and on a shaky intellectual foundation, i.e. the Waldemar Hosenbrummer cap shop in Koenigswusterhausen was run by the same Taylorite scientific management methods as General Motors in 1949.....
One that I pulled out of my image vault. No idea whether it has a tag.
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