Hi Chris
This is another great thread here on the WAF. I have just a little background to add to it...
Pertaining to posts # 30, 51, 90 & 104 in this thread
The Collector's Guide to Cloth Third Reich Military Headgear by Gary Wilkins has a lot of information on Clemens Wagner including several ads of theirs which detail the fact that Hamburg was their "branch factory" and Braunschweig was their main factory. "Betriebsleitung nur Braunschweig" in that four line stamp means "Administration only at Braunschweig." Some of the CW tropical sidecaps are stamped with an oval that only lists Braunschweig on the lower line inside the oval including one Wilkins shows that is dated 1943. They were using it in 1940, on SS wool sidecaps, but I've seen this same stamp in another cap.
Found a photo on the Any DAK Items thread. It is of a Clemens Wagner tropical sidecap belonging to our member Raymond with the stamp with an oval that only lists Braunschweig on the lower line inside the oval....Different stamps, Different factorys, same maker. The "standard" CW stamp in tropical sidecaps is with both "Hamburg-Braunschweig" inside an oval from the Hamburg site. See post #119 on this thread widely excepted by all. The caps with just the Braunschweig in the oval have been labeled fakes by some but doubt this is correct.
Post # 762 - #764 Cap is Dated October '42
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...213638&page=51
Here is member Galizien41's Continental sidecap dated either '38 or '39. Post #2
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...t=braunschweig
From this thread it appears most visors were made at the larger Braunschweig factory, but possibly some were made in Hamburg as well.
This is another great thread here on the WAF. I have just a little background to add to it...
Pertaining to posts # 30, 51, 90 & 104 in this thread
The Collector's Guide to Cloth Third Reich Military Headgear by Gary Wilkins has a lot of information on Clemens Wagner including several ads of theirs which detail the fact that Hamburg was their "branch factory" and Braunschweig was their main factory. "Betriebsleitung nur Braunschweig" in that four line stamp means "Administration only at Braunschweig." Some of the CW tropical sidecaps are stamped with an oval that only lists Braunschweig on the lower line inside the oval including one Wilkins shows that is dated 1943. They were using it in 1940, on SS wool sidecaps, but I've seen this same stamp in another cap.
Found a photo on the Any DAK Items thread. It is of a Clemens Wagner tropical sidecap belonging to our member Raymond with the stamp with an oval that only lists Braunschweig on the lower line inside the oval....Different stamps, Different factorys, same maker. The "standard" CW stamp in tropical sidecaps is with both "Hamburg-Braunschweig" inside an oval from the Hamburg site. See post #119 on this thread widely excepted by all. The caps with just the Braunschweig in the oval have been labeled fakes by some but doubt this is correct.
Post # 762 - #764 Cap is Dated October '42
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...213638&page=51
Here is member Galizien41's Continental sidecap dated either '38 or '39. Post #2
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...t=braunschweig
From this thread it appears most visors were made at the larger Braunschweig factory, but possibly some were made in Hamburg as well.
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