Visor Cap of Gruppenführer Werner Ostendorff (CO, Das Reich)

[stonemint]

Saw this at a show the other day--it was being sold as a fake, but for $2,000(!)
This dates from the late 1970's to the mid-1980s.  Thing was jam-packed with padding--would have been like wearing a rock on your head.
Lacks all the Pekuro traits.

Hat would have fooled 99.9% of collectors back then, and would still fool 95% of collectors today.

[stonemint]

Apparently the owner paid full price back in the day.

[stonemint]

Sorry about the bad pics--was using my cel-phone camera:

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[stonemint]

BTW, here is Ostendorff wearing what appears to be a Kleiderkasse piece.
The difference between crap & gold....

[svestae]

Good Work Stony...

[PatrickLewis]

It's absurd to think someone buying a fake for two grand.

[stonemint]

Pat, that is what I told the dealer, and his reply is that "the current owner has a lot more [than $2000] into it(!)

I would have paid $250 for it just to take it apart.