KM Visor bill embroidery gap - common sense ?

[compressore]

Hello,

it read here on WAF several times that there should be no gap between the bill rim and the embroidery on KM junior visor bills.

But there are also examples posted here on WAF which gets thumbs up having a gap and comments stating that this is no sign of not beeing pre-45.

So what is the state of knowledge, accepted opinion on this topic ?

Thanks
Christian

[amiklic1]

Here is mine, with the gap, a nice salty one which also got thumbs-up from various collector's.

I don't think we can just divide them into two groups, one with and the ones without the gap.

[-Ray-]

Hello,

it read here on WAF several times that there should be no gap between the bill rim and the embroidery on KM junior visor bills.

But there are also examples posted here on WAF which gets thumbs up having a gap and comments stating that this is no sign of not beeing pre-45.

So what is the state of knowledge, accepted opinion on this topic ?

Thanks
Christian

Both examples you illustrate are fine and even with the very marginal gap existing on known originals. There are also Bundesmarine or post war examples with the very small gap too so as not to mix them up look under the visor for a corrugated texture and other traits


-Ray-


*** I'm certain you know that below is the unacceptable excessive gap likely indexed in the other threads you quote.

[compressore]

Thanks Ray, now I have got it! I can see clearly the difference between accepted and non-accepted.
Christian

[-Ray-]

Rule of thumb simply applies to the full "scrambled eggs" variant as well FYI.


-Ray-