It is also worth adding to this thread that LAGO's are not the only tropical cap where you sometimes find the odd hand stitch through the liner.
I have seen a 1940 Robert Lubstein M40 cap that had some threads of the handstitched eagle through to the red lining. On the early 1940 tropical caps by that maker you will encounter hand sewn eagles.
Thus it was not always practice to stitch the eagle to the top front panel of the cap before it was assembled.
The cap belongs to another collector in their collection. I do not have permission to add images here but can assure all reading that it is 101% original, brought back from the war with the eagle applied by the Lubstein factory like that,
Chris
I have seen a 1940 Robert Lubstein M40 cap that had some threads of the handstitched eagle through to the red lining. On the early 1940 tropical caps by that maker you will encounter hand sewn eagles.
Thus it was not always practice to stitch the eagle to the top front panel of the cap before it was assembled.
The cap belongs to another collector in their collection. I do not have permission to add images here but can assure all reading that it is 101% original, brought back from the war with the eagle applied by the Lubstein factory like that,
Chris
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