Panzer overseas hat for review

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Yes

Yes, it does help a lot Chris. Thank you for taking the time to give this detailed and very fair view.

Cliff

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thought

I've been thinking about some of the things you said Chris. It's interesting that thease caps seemed to surface about the time the wall came down. A lot of items seemed to surface from Russia at the same time. Plugging the historical points into the equation could make sence on the side of thease hats and the SS smocks. The Russians were fighting whole diffrent German armies then North Americans and our western European allies. Suppliers of thease armies were sure to have varied. Much of the "vet aquired" examples most of us have had the chance to study come from common sources. The German army advanced way into Russia and then retreated over a period of years. They must have had suppliers and storage areas that ended up behind the "iron curtain" and really never surfaced into the Western collectors hands until the wall came down. By then the accepted "originals" were well soaked into the minds of collectors here. Their may be "vet" examples in the hands of former soviet hands that we still have yet to discover. A pink smock or one of thease hats may be there just waiting for all thease "questionalble" items to be accepted thus sending there value way upwards...