Berolina Logos

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I recently had pix of a Berolina visor sent to me which was, imho, a super-fake. This maker (G. A. Hoffmann of Berlin) sort of flies under the radar, in that his products were/are somewhat overlooked.

IMHO, at some point during the war, he switched from the Hoffman logo to the Berolina logo for his extramutzen. Lets try and catalogue all the known variations. (Most of these I have filched from the forum, so if you want to expound on construction, please do).

This is the "Berolina" only in arabic script:

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Close-up of above:

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Next is a Hoffmann distributor--Stellrecht, without any Klasse name:

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Beste Qualitat:

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Berolina in Fraktur:

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Meister Klasse:

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Another Meister Klasse--note the stirndruckfrei feature:

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Luxus--note the gray stirndruckfrei feature.

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Another Luxus:

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This has been commonly attributed to GAH--I simply don't know:

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If you have one of these, are any date-stamped? The hard part is going to be whether or not there was any actual difference between Meister-Klasse, Berolina, Luxus and Primus (and which one was the Erel Privat equivalent).

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Here is one from the Shutt book, supposedly for a W-SS Panzer visor:

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Does anyone have any Berolina visors with this exact logo, font, and color of lining? If so, please post.

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Some more.This is another distributor
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This is a rare "Primus"
carlo