Unknown and rare hat maker from Pied Piper Hameln

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I can not find any reference to this hat maker from Hameln of a Kreigsmarine or RKS private purchase visor

All I keep getting is references to the Pied Piper and the fact that there was cloth manufacture in that part of Germany. However, very little or nothing about the actual companies that manufactured and what exactly they made.

Is Wilhelm Kube an unknown maker ?

Any help would be much appreciated,

Chris

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Close up images of the badges are shown in this thread;

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...98#post8735798

The badge combination is not one that I have seen before i.e. a metal KM wreath with a hand embroidered thread/ celleon eagle. Have seen a thread/ celleon wreath with a metal eagle but not the other way round like this.
Also never seen this type of high quality KM wreath. Is it for the RKS ?

Chris

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The chinstrap is ersatz compressed cardboard with a black finish like on a Pickelhaube. It is the type seen on the standard NCO very rare DRB-WSP visor hats.

The wreath, the chinstrap and the shape of the hat are what is making me think RKS or something like that, rather than a regular KM NCO visor. The New Zealand soldiers got their hands on RKS items in Italy 1945,

Chris

[wilhelm Saris]

RKS means Reichskommissar für Seeschiffahrt.

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RKS means Reichskommissar für Seeschiffahrt.

Thanks, I was told

Reichskommisariat für die Seeschifsfahrt – Reich Commissariat of Maritime Traffic

Interestingly, they seem to have been in Italy but I can not find evidence of them being elsewhere in the Reich.

The buttons I have and other collectors here in NZ are Italian made and of a light, flimsy quality when compared to German made WW2 KM buttons,

Chris

[enorepap]

W. Kube was a confirmed kurschner (furrier) in Hameln, Osterstr. 52, as for the 1929 adressbuch:

http://genwiki.genealogy.net/w/index....djvu&page=184
http://genwiki.genealogy.net/w/index...9.djvu&page=89
http://genwiki.genealogy.net/w/index....djvu&page=267

Best regards

[90th Light]

W. Kube was a confirmed kurschner (furrier) in Hameln, Osterstr. 52, as for the 1929 adressbuch:

http://genwiki.genealogy.net/w/index....djvu&page=184
http://genwiki.genealogy.net/w/index...9.djvu&page=89
http://genwiki.genealogy.net/w/index....djvu&page=267

Best regards

Thank you for your help,

A furrier is interesting because the hard brittle sweat diamond says "Mutzen fabrit" which I translate to hat-fabric, "gegrundet 1890"= founded 1890

The hat is private purchase, made of high quality materials. I wonder if they made clothing/ hat materials first and got into hat making on a limited basis ?

Hameln back then and up until the 1990's was known for cloth manufacture and textiles. Such materials are still being made there today on a smaller scale,

Chris

[BenVK]

Hi Chris,
It's definitely "Mutzenfabrik" and not fabrit. The Fraktur style font just makes it look like a t.
German Kurschner or Kurschnerei retail outlets typically sold all manner of hats, not just fur items. Here's one such example, Hermann Lambrecht.

[BenVK]

There is a kepi made by W. Kube shown here but I can't vouch for it's authenticity.
https://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/for...05197&page=121

[90th Light]

Hi Chris,
It's definitely "Mutzenfabrik" and not fabrit. The Fraktur style font just makes it look like a t.
German Kurschner or Kurschnerei retail outlets typically sold all manner of hats, not just fur items. Here's one such example, Hermann Lambrecht.

Many thanks Ben,

the "t" being a "k" and that photo of the range of products sold in a furrier's shop in 1930's/ 40's Germany would explain it

Love that picture of the shop. Brings back memories of Friday late night shopping in the 1960's,

Chris