I am no expert on these caps. I would appreciate your opinions.
Bob Hritz
Bob Hritz
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In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
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gromitsIn the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
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Interior kills it IMO Bob. I don't like the grommet flanges or washers, but the biggest problem is they have completely mispelled "Braunschweig". No "ch" in this hat.
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Thank you. I remembered the Braunschweig mistake, but completely overlooked it in this cap. It lust dazzled me enough to overlook something so elementary.
Bob HritzIn the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
Duct tape can't fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.Comment
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Love is blind Bob and causes us to overlook flaws in a lot of things.Comment
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It certainly looks good to me! any idea who made these?
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I agree with Waffenreich on these points. I would have expected on these early caps zinc for grommets.
Soutache looks ruffed up as well for some reason IMO and the eagle is interesting in the shade of backing cloth , might be the sun light that has caused it to look like that.
Not for me.
Cheers
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wasn't there a lot of dak schiffchen found with this same interior and the soutache was replaced on a lot of themComment
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Insignia is repro poly and the cap, as stated previously, is bad, as in 100% bad....no amount of equivocating will make it original.
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Agree with Robt. 100% Fake. The misspelling of Braunschweig, the location of the main CW factory is the signature of these fakes.Comment
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I'd imagine there has been a rush in collection rooms everywhere to check their CW hats now.Comment
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Not really as these are old fakes, just a liitle bit more obvious than the other fake CW M40's.Originally posted by Waffenreich View Post
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If my recollection is correct, I believe these repros were made by SM Wholesale. A credit to them to deliberately misspell the manufacturer.Comment
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The CW tropical sidecaps found in the beehive cache did have original soutache if dated prior to Aug '42. The CW's dated Sept '42 and later did not, & yes some of these later dated caps have had the soutache added postwar.Originally posted by beufighter View Post
The Hans Brandt sidecaps are the ones that have been messed with the most. While a few HB's dated Aug '42 did have original soutache. Many did not, and now we see HB sidecaps dated Aug, Dec '42 or even from '43 with an rb# with postwar soutache added.
If any cap is dated Aug '42 or later the soutache should be examined carefully, as its very likely added post War.
& Lee very interesting to learn the origin of these Braunswieg caps
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