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12-30-2010 12:54 AM
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Re: SS cap in Poland and its cousin
Here is its cousin, far from Polska.
I do not have an image of its interior, but it is in the Hayes book with the "vorschriftsmaessig" logo with the runics, and it is made by the same firm with the same RZM tag of early type.
The sweat band is affixed by hand and the forehead has a felt Einlage, as you see above, as a kind of Stirndrueckfrei thingy. Many early black SS caps have such a feature.
Go figure. Caps of later make lacked such details....
The 1934 Hoheitszeichen is maybe slightly over the top, but I have left it there, as well as the variation of the Danziger Totenkopf. The finish on the two badge is close to matching, as if that made a real difference to me. The cap here is in a very fine state of preservation.
These caps that end up in books I usually manage to sell before I realize that I owned them, but in this case, I kept the thing, as I did a couple of others.
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Re: SS cap in Poland and its cousin
These early caps seem so blue collar, working class. Same with the design of the insignia, very rough and "cartoonish." Soon the look changes to a more military and refined design. Indicative of an organization striving to be taken seriously.
I imagine these early pieces are quite rare.
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Re: SS cap in Poland and its cousin
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Re: SS cap in Poland and its cousin
The cap that Pascal just posted has an early style Eagle, with a later style Skull. Is that common?
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Re: SS cap in Poland and its cousin
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ww2fotos
The cap that Pascal just posted has an early style Eagle, with a later style Skull. Is that common?
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One can only generalize with difficulty. Most early caps got modernized, but some did not, or they were modernized partially. Many early caps still retain evidence of the earlier insignia on them, but the so called 1934 Totenschaedel was in reality a product of 1933, and the exception is to find caps unmodernized. But then who can always tell when the badges were affixed? There are surely ways, quite subtle. I cannot date the badges, unless they have a date themselves. I am sure that when the badges got shabby looking at the time, they were updated. But the SS cap had the reputation that it was used infrequently, i.e. the part timers only used the thing to drill a few times a year and thus some of these endured, somehow, to the present---a miracle.
I did not know that "yup" was an Alsatian word?
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Re: SS cap in Poland and its cousin
Last edited by Pascal BERNHARD; 12-30-2010 at 08:42 PM.
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Re: SS cap in Poland and its cousin
Considering how many tens of thousands of these caps originally existed and how few still exist and we can examine, generalizations are all pretty tentative as far as I can see. The Querschnitt upon which we generalize is very shaky.
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