rare photo of rare ss insignia!

[WalterB]

Great stuff, both the picture and the cap!!

[Perry Floyd]

Nice cap Glenn

[billbert]

Yep!!Billbert

[Ludwig]

Excellent photo!

[90th Light]

glad you guys like it. I think it's important to document these rarer insignia variations in wear.

This is an excellent photo, thank you very much for posting it.

A friend of mine has one of these SS caps with that trap and the one button. It has a short bill/visor like a mountain trooper bergmutze. His one came from Norway and was left behind by an SS soldier who was stationed there at the end of the war. He got it as a thank you present from an exchange student who came to New Zealand to study and posted it to him after returning home having realised how interested he was in the history of the war while staying with him here in NZ.

If you look carefully at your picture you will see what I mean about the bill/visor appearing shorter like the mountain type.

Never ever seen a picture of one until now so you will make my friends day,

Chris

[Øyvind]

Two buttons on this m/43, but could it be the same type of trap?

Regards
Øyvind

[BryanD]

Good thread.

[jotuntroll]

Thanks for showing the rare picture of the capinsignia

Øyvind, is the collartab a sonnenrad?

[colt45s]

just when you think you seen it all! first one for me.. thanks

[Øyvind]

Thanks for showing the rare picture of the capinsignia

Øyvind, is the collartab a sonnenrad?

Hi! Yes, its a Norwegian officer in Nordland. The photo is taken on the liberation day here in Oslo ( 8. may 1945). Here is the rest of the photo. It uniqe in many ways. not only because of the "Nordland" tab, but also for showing one of the 34 Norwegians that got the EKI. The man on this photo, Egil Hoel, got his EKI while fighting in Narwa under 23. rgt "Norge", kampfgruppe "Kuste". The GAB was given to him while serving in III. Germ pz korps.

Regards
Øyvind

[Øyvind]

Egil Hoel. This m43 also seem to have a "trap".

[Jens]

wonderful photo.

Does anyone know the other photos. Hoel was a very good friend of Kryssing and served under him. In many ways they had much in common.

Here is another trap pic, sold on ebay recently.
Regards,
Fred

[Felix]

Thanks for showing that nice panzer picture.
I think in the last two-three years the amount of known period photos showing these late war M43 caps with trapezoid insignias, bevo or embroidered, have doubled.
It used to be an argument among some collectors that these late war M43 caps with BeVo traps must all be repros because there are virtually no war time photos showing them in use. I have another photo of a Nordland soldier that when viewed with a lupe shows a soldier with a BeVo trap.

[90th Light]

Bringing another thread to the top for Robert, interesting photos in this one is an understatement,

Chris