I got this curious sidecap years ago from a friend also a member here on WAF , another collector found it really uncommon and asked me to start a new thread ... please comment !!! grazie
Paolo
Paolo
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side and Waffenfarbe
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inside false front
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size mark , grommets
size mark is a 57 ( no other marks are visible ) maybe the font could help experts to figure out the maker, grommets are not the common onesLast edited by PAOLORUBENS; 05-13-2013, 11:04 AM.Comment
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An anomaly...but IMHO quite real...First saw 1 in 1978... Billbert
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1978 !?!?!?
Billbert !?!?! 1978Originally posted by billbert View PostAn anomaly...but IMHO quite real...First saw 1 in 1978... Billbert
... dont you think is time to retire and sell some of your treasures ? 
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Sadly that's happened more than a few times.. Again nothing IMHO wrong with those caps.. I think the cap I saw in 1978 at a big time dealers back then was 35/40 bucks tops..Billbert
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I too believe this cap to be 100% original. Just not what am used to seeing. Thanks for showing
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I have seen a whole bundle of these tropical sidecaps with double grommets on each side. They were from the "Beehive" find and still with soutache. All still tied together with cloth tape. 101% period and original
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Chris thanks for the beehive confirmation. Do you remember if they were all reseda piped ?Originally posted by 90th Light View PostI have seen a whole bundle of these tropical sidecaps with double grommets on each side. They were from the "Beehive" find and still with soutache. All still tied together with cloth tape. 101% period and original
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Hello Tim,Originally posted by Tim OK View Post
someone like member "Italianwarfront" put up a whole lot of tropical sidecaps for sale on the estand sometime between 2001 and 2005. I kept images of each maker and there were several. Sadly, they were lost in a computer crash.
Anyway there was a thread started at that time about the "Beehive" find. Various members added images of what they had or had seen. One member put up images of the bundles of caps still tied together. The 4 grommet sidecaps were among the ones for sale on the estand and in the bundles.
Perhaps someone else reading this still has the images or a link to the older thread. I did a search but can not find the old threads about the "Beehive" finds any longer. I hope they are not lost forever,
Chris
p.s. from memory, I think the 4 grommet trop. sidecaps were the early type of jager/ apple green of the early war light infantry/ specialist trained units before the PG lime green but there may have also been artillery red which is another rare soutache to find in the Beehive examples.Last edited by 90th Light; 05-13-2013, 05:01 PM.Comment
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Thanks for info. That sounds like the second "release" of the 1st beehive cache. These caps had been held for almost 30 years since the discovery.
Those were all originals if i remember. But around the same time the 2nd beehive (railroad car) batch was also "released" from another source which was mainly made up of the HB 842's and 1142's with post War added soutache. so the timing is interesting.
The original beehive thread sounds interesting perhaps it can be found agian ?Comment
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bundles
lately I've seen in person 2 of those bundles : 6 Panzer caps which were sold by his site 4/5 yrs ago ... easily CW ... and 6 Transport not sure if still available ( CW or HB ) but most important they were all classic 2 grommets modelComment
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Paolo,
I don't think this is the one I sold you years ago, believe mine had just a single grommet but hey I wouldn't have any issues with this one coming my way. Matt
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oops Matt , maybe you are right ... you actually sold me an uncommon breast Eagle with 4 paws not a 4 grommets lovely sidecap 
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