Pink piped ss nco visor cap

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LAST for now. Thanks.

[BenVK]

Hi Gisle,

It's a re-banded Heer cap for sure and not very well done.
You can still see bits of the original green band in the seams.
Also, the card pasteboard has been replaced with buckram.

Sorry for the bad news.

[jacquesf]

Hi Gisle,

It's a re-banded Heer cap for sure and not very well done.
You can still see bits of the original green band in the seams.
Also, the card pasteboard has been replaced with buckram.

Sorry for the bad news.

Yep, spoiled a nice private purchase visor. J

[stonemint]

That hat is a bigger trainwreck than Amy Schumer.

[enorepap]

New images confirmed my initial suspicions: the band has been replaced and sewn imperfectly, clearly involving the performance of the intermediate and lower pipings (see for example the images no. 13 and 16). Unfortunately, this fits perfectly with the fact that we can still see the ghost of the Heer's eagle.

The fact that the circle is completely made with korbgeflecht (buckram) and no cardboard, however, involves a further evaluation because it is an infrequent case: the first explanation that comes to my mind is that the cardboard has been removed (maybe it was fractured) and this also explains why the band shows the waves and wrinkles. In fact, the full buckram board seems incompatible with a rigid cap and much more suited to a crusher, that I don’t see here. Last observation: the inner fabric that holds the lower piping seems to me correctly cut and in the second image no. 16 and 17 and possibly in the first no. 18 I see ( respectively between the fabric and the buckram above the skull's holes toward the center-right and on the left of the button's prongs) a little bit of something, perhaps some remains of the cardboard or only a reinforcement of the buckram instead?

I think it would be prudent to ensure this. Otherwise I think that we need to focus on why the forger would have used this unusual practice rather than simply replace the cardboard & band. I do not remember a similar case during a decade of WAF membership. If anyone has seen this practice, it would be helpful if he intervenes.

Best regards