RAD EM/NCO Robin Hood for Review

[stonemint]

I am looking for comments on this cap. It is currently on a dealer site, and not being a Robin Hood specialist, it looks good to me--but I have never owned an OR hat, so I am curious what others think:

[stonemint]

Side view:

[stonemint]

Interior

[stonemint]

Maker: CG Wilke. It looks good to me from pix, but others have questioned it. Yancy, this is your "turf" (that's my RAD pun for the day )--your thoughts?

[stonemint]

Additional pix are on www.doughboymilitary.com

[stonemint]

BTW, C.G. Wilke was a real maker--it made Picklhauben Effekten during WWI, and was a Hutfabrik in Guben during the TR--I believe it survived the war, only to be "collectivized" by the DDR in 1950. I believe this photo of the Wilke "factory" was taken during the DDR era--please correct me if I am wrong, and add any information you might have about them:

[Bob Coleman]

From The Images, I Cannot Find Any Fault With This Cap.

[Vid]

I know the seller and he is not the type to misrepresent anything, and a straight shooter. If thats any help.

Kris

[Radcollector]

im with Bob i cant see anything in the pics that would raise alarms,one of the forum moderators George Stimpson has a mint EM one as well,by a different maker.im curious what did others question about it?i was going to ask if it had a ink stamp on the inside of the sweatband but i saw the pic from the link you posted.

heres a link to some photos of georges,im sure he would send you more if you PM him. http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...t=77974&page=4

[stonemint]

Yancy and Bob--thanks for piping in on this and affirming my opinion that it is good. Someone on the GDC forum claimed it was a repro when Patrice posted it. Most fakers don't shoot for such relatively common caps, and put this degree of effort into it (ie, the hand-stitched sb, and a stamp for this specific maker.) I still like this hat, and if I collected NCO, I would have bought it in a heartbeat....