Your Thoughts on this Army M34 Mil Police Hat

[airborne_steve]

Hi WAF Members,

I'm interested in this Heer M34, Field Police Overseas hat and I would like your thoughts on it. The pictures shown are all I have at the moment. The eagle looks like a early, pre-war mouse grey cotton eagle. from what I can see, all insignia including the piping are machine sewn. It has a size mark in it but I do not see a maker stamp. The current owner will be sending more pictures. at first gland it seems like a good hat? I would like to know your thoughts on this? All comments welcome.

Steve

[airborne_steve]

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[airborne_steve]

[Graham G]

From my limited knowledge, that's not a Police M34 at all. That's just a standard Heer M34. However, i don't know what the orange soutach signifies.

[Lenny W]

I believe these are fake caps have seen quite a few piped in pink and white with the sa
me eagles all machine sewn with just a size stamp

[OSS]

With the pre-war insignia I would expect this to be a recruiter's cap not Feldgendarmerie, as orange was the Waffenfarbe for recruiting then, but I have to agree with Lenny; this cap is a fairly recent fake (IMO).

[airborne_steve]

Thank you all for your help on this. I do remember seeing a few threads covering these newest fakes on the market. Best regards, Steve

[billbert]

FAKE...Billbert

[Lenny W]

FAKE...Billbert

One guy at the SOS had a dozen of these caps all lined up on a shelf in any rare branch color,and selling them as originals