The SS cap that fooled me!

[BenVK]

I bought this one a few years ago.

Under no illusions, I bought it knowing how rare these leather peaked SS caps are and knew it would be a risk.

Well it fooled me for a few months. I couldn't see anything obviously wrong about it but my gut told me something wasn't right.

I had to dismantle the cap to get to the truth which was a major decision based on the price I'd paid for it. Enough to buy a decent second hand car!

Anyway, as I started to dig inside, I discovered the evidence of a very well made Frankenstein creation.
Every part of it was authentic, they just didn't belong in this cap!

I'm posting this one to show that we can all be fooled, it's very difficult but not impossible to spot the clever fakes.

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[BenVK]

Also, I sold this one as a fake, if you ever see it advertised as original, run way!

[PatrickLewis]

That's a scary cap mate, was there no way you could have gotten a refund?

[Steve]

It is always a bitter experience to discover you have been taken advantage of.

[stonemint]

Ben, great lesson.
Us older collectors have been burnt, and sometimes very badly. Back in the day a lot of collecting was done in isolation, and the "big boys" did not want to share their knowledge with novice collectors. On top of that, the "old salt" dealers were more than willing to divest a young collector of his newspaper-route savings for something they knew was bad. Thank goodness for the internet--it would have saved us all thousands of dollars had it been in existence in the 70s and 80s.