SS visor out of woodwork!

[Bobwirtz]

To answer your question Swiss-Man, he dug it out of a family, or the veteran, etc. It didn't come from a dealer.

Bob

[John Huff]

"out of the wood work" is an expression that means "never been in a collection before" --- as in buying an item from the family or veteran

[Mr.Jerry D]

"The woodwork" is slang for a magical place where you get an item not from a show, not from a dealer, where it has never been in a collection before. It may be right from the Veteran (or sadly) these days the family of the Veteran.

Most of the time these items are found and aquired for a fraction of what their collector market value would be (not so much the case anymore with the internet, as now everyones an expert with just a few clicks) But the thrill is in finding an item that is unmessed with, 100% original, and may still have spiderwebs and dust from 60+ years of storage on them. To find an item "out of the woodwork" means to grasp that "brass ring" that all of us as collectors seek.

[Swiss-Man]

thanks for the replies

[Ludwig]

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Very nice!
I once had an UNTOUCHED Waffen-SS officer´s cap with that political eagle.

[Arthur Hayes]

Ss Em

This is truly a great visor EM great find!!!
Arthur Hayes

[all1knew]

WOW

[Antiquefrog]

A most excellent example of this often-seen visor.

[Lassi]

Nice and also have to add: wow

[Antiquefrog]

This a fine cap, and as a collector I only want to iterate that such EM examples were apparently stored away by the thousands during the late pre-war era during the transition to gray uniforms - they are abundant today, and fetch a strong 4-5K price as the entry level to SS cap collecting, which reflects popularity rather than rarity. An officer version, when available (seldom), only brings 2-3X this price today - yet, verifiable enlistment and staffing records of the period indicate that EMs outnumbered officers by 25/30 - 1. I only offer this IMO and do not want to detract, in any way, from the desirabilty of the cap under discussion. Frog.