Please take a look at this cap, looks good at first sight, but look carefully, I believe this is the new generation of fake peaked cap. There are several observations that I have made but I wont go into it here.

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Gary,

I agree with you that the cap does not look quite right from the photos. It gives the appearance of a postwar cap with an exaggerated front peak and I never heard of this maker among other issues. It is rather distinctive in style so I will be looking for similar ones in the future.

Am I seeing shadows or is there trace from insignia on the front? Before the auction is done and the pictures are gone, might as well add the pictures here for future reference.

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Interesting, looks like wear to the brown...

Nope it was good stezelberger boughtit. His userid is stez on the eban. He does not bid until the last second

I dont care who bought it, It has a plastic sweat shield, its a repro, no cap maker would let a cap go out of his hand with that sweatband either.

I agree with Gary. This hat has a lot of problems. It appears to be made by the same firm who cranked out some very high quality Erel & Clement Wagner hats five to six years ago. They also came sans insignia but there were ghosts of insignia in the material. As Gary mentioned, the patched sweatband is a dead giveaway. I am sure Gerard will be retuning this piece. I hope he gets his money back.
Bob

I agree that this cap is most certainly a reproduction. The most glaring error is the cobbled together sweatband that has been re-sewn and re-installed in the back. I think the other errors do not have to be made public for an even better fake the next time. The outing of the bogus insignia on these caps is probably what led to them being found with no insignia now.

In the spirit of me-too-ism, I have never seen such a sweat band in thirty-eight years of gazing at the modest insides of musty old central European headgear. A Kuerschnermeister who did so (i.e.bollixed up Schweissleder) would have lost his Meisterbrief. The cap in question is purportedly from a handicrafts establishment versus a cap factory, hence, one would expect an even higher standard of worksmanship, nicht wahr? And, when these pieces seem to show utterly no wear or even the slightest signs of age, then one should look with a more skeptical eye. Sapere aude!