U-boat enlisted overseas cap

[Kbraafladt]

I am working on purchasing a Kriegsmarine collection from an estate and I wanted to see what your thoughts are on the authenticity of these? Based on my knowledge the caps themselves look good. I am not that familiar with the U-boat badges as much and any opinions would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Kevin

[Kbraafladt]

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[JAndrew]

Kevin,
To me they look good but to me these uboat emblems are a minefield (no pun intended). They are typically hand made and are often on the crude side so it is not that difficult for a faker to reproduce. But being sewn on a cap I would look at the threads holding them on and try to lift them a bit and see if the areas they cover show a lack of fading. The problem there is that if these were put on in, say, the 1960's they have about 60 years of fading!
JAndrew

[hvdw972]

Hello,
I'm agree with Jandrew, always very difficult to see an original than a fake because very easy to make... but I think that the u-boot flottille badge ( 2eme u-Boot Flottille LORIENT ) on the white cap is good, the others are not U-boot Flottille badge but U-boot crew badge, i like also the 7 with bottle but the picture is not very clean... for the two others ??? the Drakkar was copied many time..but the faker forget to put the 2 or 3 holes !
In my collect I have only 2 u-boat crew badge, 100% original because it's a veteran of u-471 who given them to me in year 1985...
I will try to find some others informations for you
best regards
Hervé

[John R.]

You can never know 100% for sure with these but they look good to me. I like the fact that the 777 boat is in there since that was a training boat. You see this one a lot due to the large number of men that would have served in her during training.

I think you you should believe in what you have.

John

[lemalouin]

The caps are goods no doubt, hermann is a well know maker of KM side caps

So I have a good feeling with the insignas

[Ludwig]

IMO everything looks good, but, as said before, those, many times more or less hand made badges, can be very difficult to classify.