SS camouflage cover

[kammo man]

Oh
On second thoughts .......
Who gave Kelly the cover to sign off on ?
There's a scam going on here that is rotting the core of the helmet cover collecting community.
People are getting burned left and right and the makers are laughing.

[Normandy1944]

Oh
On second thoughts .......
Who gave Kelly the cover to sign off on ?
There's a scam going on here that is rotting the core of the helmet cover collecting community.
People are getting burned left and right and the makers are laughing.

When I was offered this cap I was given a few weeks to check the originality.
I'm from the Netherlands, so I had to limited time to sent his cap to Kelly Hicks and wait for Kelly Hicks to give his opinion.
Instead I went to a professional photographer and send the high quality photos to Kelly Hicks for his valuation by email.

The strange thing about this cover is, the collector who offered it to me got this cover from a Dutch resistance veteran.

[Normandy1944]

Here's a scan from the COA with the comments of Kelly Hicks

[kammo man]

Buy the item not the story.
Why would Kelly write a Coa based on photos ?

This is weird
This is weird
This is weird

[Normandy1944]

Buy the item not the story.
Why would Kelly write a Coa based on photos ?

This is weird
This is weird
This is weird

He has a page on his website where you can read he also valuates by email: http://www.ss-steel-inc.com/ss_steel...ntications.htm

[kammo man]

Ok I get it now.
An on line scam that cost you how much ?
Never seen that before....

My advice to you at this point.
Get your money back and write Kelly informing him that he's doing the hobby wrong and get the money for the Coa back.

There is nothing much left to say on this swindle.

[Massimo F.]

Ok I get it now.
An on line scam that cost you how much ?
Never seen that before....

My advice to you at this point.
Get your money back and write Kelly informing him that he's doing the hobby wrong and get the money for the Coa back.

There is nothing much left to say on this swindle.

Spot on as usual

[Ljungberg]

Hemmet cover

Hi evrybody! Sad and learning at the same time, reading this thread. Me myselfe am looking for a 100% real cover. Im willing to pay the market walue but im to afraid o buy one without help from an expert. Ive allmosa give up Tyringe to find one. There are some covers for sale at the Collectors guild, what is the opinion generals about those? I hope you get your money back, i had some items before with heavy expertice, turned up to be fakes. Some expertices are not worth sh.....t.

[dragnet]

Im confused I know, its not hard but thread was started on the 30th for comments which seem to be on the negative side, item was placed up for sale on WRF on the 31st, has the item now been found to be original period

[cbuehler]

Hi evrybody! Sad and learning at the same time, reading this thread. Me myselfe am looking for a 100% real cover. Im willing to pay the market walue but im to afraid o buy one without help from an expert. Ive allmosa give up Tyringe to find one. There are some covers for sale at the Collectors guild, what is the opinion generals about those? I hope you get your money back, i had some items before with heavy expertice, turned up to be fakes. Some expertices are not worth sh.....t.

You cannot be 100% sure unless you can find one direct from the vet himself or with some other solid provenance. I am not an "expert", but I am convinced that the perfect fake can, and indeed, has been made. This applies to other items as well, not just covers.
Otherwise, one can only go by the opinions of advanced collectors, but this cannot absolutely guarantee authenticity.
In my opinion, there needs to be a market value correction on items such as these.

CB

[kammo man]

Cover is bad
Owen