Nice Luft M43 cap single button

[airborne]

This is a nice Luftwaffe M43 cap single button style. It is a size 59 by Karl Werner Meiningen date 1943. Asking $600.00

Payment by paypal.

[Glenn McInnes]

Moving this one from E stand for discussion.








Glenn

[antifake]

I´m sorry, this is a fake made in Czech Republic.

[airborne]

Sorry, but can you explain this more to me. I have never seen a fake hat like this and Karl Werner was a legit hat maker. Can ypu post another Czech fake like this? Thanks.

Jeff

[Lenny W]

fake cap for sure they like to mix them up a bit sometimes with maker marks and others with RB numbers do you see the same characteristics and sometimes they even use original insignia,which none of these examples posted have

[Lenny W]

another

[John Hodgin]

FYI airborne, it is generally a bad sign if a Luftwaffe cap dated 43 or 44 is maker marked. But there are many other details wrong with the cap you posted. It is indeed a fake.

[airborne]

Thanks

Thanks for the replies, I have never seen this version of fake. Nicely made regardless.

I wish it would be a law that all fake military items German, U.S., ect. had to be clearly maked as "Repro" but I quess the crooks would never let that law be passed.

[enorepap]

It's very interesting to note that we have some fake visors with the stamping of:
Spezialhaus fur Uniformen Armin Griener Bad Warmbrunn / Rsgb. Leipzig - Cottbus Sonderklasse

and now also some LW fieldcaps with the stamping of:
Armin Greiner Bad Warmbrunn / Rsgb.

Bad Warmbrunn now is Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój in Poland.
Rsgb. means Riesengebirge.

My appeal to counterfeiters: at least, decide on the spelling!

[enorepap]

The ultimate evidence: No Greiner or Griener in the Adressbuch für den Kreis Hirschberg 1927:

http://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/e...name&order=asc

[Stenton]

Direct link - Armin GRIENER subject

Hello Radek,

This is the link of the thread.

I'm curious to know more about "Armin GRIENER", who seems to be a ghost capmaker. Till now, I have no evidence of his life...

To read you.

Thanks.

Stenton

[antifake]

Hello Radek,

This is the link of the thread.

I'm curious to know more about "Armin GRIENER", who seems to be a ghost capmaker. Till now, I have no evidence of his life...

To read you.

Thanks.

Stenton

Hi Stento,

we can start to write not by privat messages, but thrue forum. I can´t tell you something more about this maker Griener, but I´m sure about those caps. One more point that they are fake and I know from who is that he doesn´t have button hole machine, so all his button holes are everytime hand made. Inside missing reinforcement, everytime same patina...

Regards Radek