Panzer EM OS cap

[sonderverband]

I might have been a believer too, but I have a real one by the same manufacturer, also F 1940 and there are MARKED differences.

[enorepap]

I might have been a believer too, but I have a real one by the same manufacturer, also F 1940 and there are MARKED differences.

I spent several hours comparing all the KUBACH's stamps known to me and I must say that sonderverband convinced me !!! An imitation very well done, especially because the stamp bears the horizontal center line, absent in the most recent false but typical, for example, of real headgears , made from KUBACH for DAK's personnel.

Thank you for sharing your experience

[billbert]

Nothing better than comparing known good ones..as long as he want making 2 lines during the war..good thread..Billbert

[MisterX]

Do you get it?

[macca007]

No I didn't... but I just found out someone paid $2225.00US for it..........

[clestuff]

I like this hat a lot. I wish I could see better pics of the inner stitching along the lower edge. It allmost looks hand sewn on inside and machine sewn on outside. Its unlike ones that I've had and seen.

[B. N. Singer]

No I didn't... but I just found out someone paid $2225.00US for it..........

A pity.

B. N. Singer

[90th Light]

Got a badly mothed field grey sidecap by "Karl Kubach" in a veteran lot and was surprised by how the liner had been finished off by hand just like the Panzer example which started this thread. Looks like this company finished off their caps that way after all.

Plus the font on what is left of the makers stamp in my one also seems to be an exact match for the one which started this thread. Look at the distinctive number "5"

Makes one wonder if we called it right or not and the Panzer cap which started this thread could in fact the real deal with perhaps a reapplied soutache ???

Would love to have seen the grommets and the type of wool used but the Panzer one which started this certainly has "real" potential.

Will get 'ebony' to post some images of my "salty" veteran dog,

Chris

ps my one is a big size too, size 61

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[90th Light]

The stamp is hard to see in these images but when you get it in the right light it is an exact match in terms of the font. This font is quite different to any I have ever seen on tropical caps by this maker plus I have not had one by them with a hand finished liner.

I think the one that started this might just be and it shows that they did make them that way plus even within the same company there are manufacturer's variations.

The salty dog is a valuable reference on this one,

Chris