HG Panzer Sidecap

[J Melvin]

Nm

[BenVK]

What's that Jack?

[BenVK]

NSKK also wore black wool caps with luft eagle , think I saw one with white eagle and several with tropical eagles.
Don't know much about NSKK, they might've different stamps.

Jos, NSKK caps are cut completley differently plus they would 9 times out 10 have an RZM tag.

[Jos L C]

Here's a Dutch NSKK member with black overseas luft cap ..

Jos.

[BenVK]

Ok, so it seems like no one is going to help me out here. That's fine, I like a challenge.

Firstly, I researched into whether I could find any other Luftwaffe caps marked Lago-Berlin. They are tough to find but here are 2.

A standard Luft EM sidecap.

[BenVK]

A black mechanics cap. Interesting label in this one but I see no reason to doubt it.

[BenVK]

Secondly, I was obviously trying to find a Luftwaffe cap with the "B.II" depot stamp. I could not...yet.

I did find this RAD hat though. Lago-Berlin B.II 40.

RAD had their own depots and stamps so why the B.II stamp?

[BenVK]

RAD had their own depots and stamps so why the B.II stamp?

Seemed to have worked the other way around as well.

RAD depot stamp in a Heer Pz wrap?

[BenVK]

Finaly, I could not find any information at all that positively identifies the "B.II" mark as a stamp for a "Heer only" clothing depot at all. Where did that idea come from? No one really seems to know for sure what it means anyway so how can anyone come to the conclusion that it means Heer only? I've just proved some RAD items are stamped with it.

That seems the basis of the whole doubt regarding the cap I posted. If it didn't have the "B.II" stamp, what would the comments be then? It conforms to the cut, construction of all the HG caps I've ever seen posted here and given the thumbs up. But it can't be because of that one stamp? I don't get that.

[BenVK]

Here's a Dutch NSKK member with black overseas luft cap ..

Thanks Jos, I was busy typing as you were posting.

That cap would be a very rare animal would it not?

[RamJet]

Helmut Weitze also once had a Luftwaffe Mechanikerschiffchen marked "Lago Berlin". Seems not that rare.















By the way, I like people defending the items they are convinced of ...

[BenVK]

By the way, I like people defending the items they are convinced of ...

Thanks for the photos of that example Ramjet. Confirms the cloth label that I've never seen before. Excellent.

I'm not really trying to defend my cap. It must stand and fall on it's merits. I just feel it's not accurate to say that it can't be one thing or another based on one little stamp that no solid facts are known about yet.

[BenVK]

Well, you're all probably getting sick of me and I'm getting sick of this cap!

I sat down with it again for an hour. I'm not even sure the stamp is B.II 42 anymore. Seems more like B 11 42 and there was another box below it but it's so difficult to make out clearly and even worse to take a photo.

[RamJet]

No.

B II 42 is correct:

[BenVK]

Looks very similar, what cap is that Mr.Jet?