unissued LW tropical side cap

[NickG]

Revisiting this cap again! I got some info on it's origins...



Some background on the hat, I bought it at Excalibur Militaria in Paris in 1995 and have had it in my possession ever since.
So any ingenious new tricks that have come about since then... this pre-dates that.

I showed this LW tropical cap to George Petersen a few years ago and he thought it looked fine, we discussed where I got it
and his opinion was that it's likely from the cache of these caps found in Europe in 1993, that they were in good condition like this, etc.
Anyway, he had no concerns and since he is the LW tropical meister I took that as a good sign.

Just some more food for thought as GP is well known for having tracked down such items in the late 80's and early 90's...

[HAF]

i vote its from caravano if the origin is Paris ,he made some tropen stuff in CZ back them ,for complet this one come the so called "short legs" tropen pants and nice done tunics .

[jmb]

Excalibur shop and P.A. Caravano = direct connection

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

Caravano and Johnson were known parisian crooks who used the good old tricks of "stocks found in 1945, stocks found after the fall of communism, stocks found in movie studios" etc.
Kriegsmarine, LW, SS etc...
Just ask any dealer who knew them, you will get a large smile on their face if you ask them if they were involved in fakes...

See You

Vince

[Lenny W]

Hi,

Caravano and Johnson were known parisian crooks who used the good old tricks of "stocks found in 1945, stocks found after the fall of communism, stocks found in movie studios" etc.
Kriegsmarine, LW, SS etc...
Just ask any dealer who knew them, you will get a large smile on their face if you ask them if they were involved in fakes...

See You

Vince

So this cap is one of his fakes?

[Willi Z.]

Hi,

Caravano and Johnson were known parisian crooks who used the good old tricks of "stocks found in 1945, stocks found after the fall of communism, stocks found in movie studios" etc.
Kriegsmarine, LW, SS etc...
Just ask any dealer who knew them, you will get a large smile on their face if you ask them if they were involved in fakes...

See You

Vince

I only knew one of them and would see him at the large US shows. Had a great collection that was auctioned off in Germany a couple of years ago, but is quite known as a seller of many fakes. Still see him at Kassel.

I keep getting tips about a WAF member, also from France, who also has great items and goes to Kassel, and is involved in selling fakes as well.

[OSS]

Mssr. Caravano has been a fixture at the SOS for many years.

[Lodsworth]

M40 analogy

[Alan63]

viewed

is this the same cap
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...waffe+Tropical

[Lenny W]

is this the same cap
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...waffe+Tropical

Looks like the same cap. Nick's pictures on the left and Jan's on the right.

[John Hodgin]

Cut and stamps are bad, why not wait for a good, unquestionable example.... not that hard to find.

Robt.

Sound advice. Cannot say for certain it is a bad cap, but it is definitely not one I would want.