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Going ahead about information about the website about the stolen collection from my friend Philippe Gillain
and the related announcement (which is somewhat delayed, but will come soon) I would like to show the
members of the forum my favorite from his collection, which is vanished also.
PS: I was lucky, as I was allowed to have a preview at the planned website. I think the collecting world
will be pleased when the website finally is "airborne"!
If you see the both items offered somewhere, shown below, please do contact me with a PM
With various visits to my friend in Belgium I always anxiously awaited to see again the quite rare set of headgear,
a visored cap and field cap for the Grosses Militär-Waisenhaus, Potsdam. For me this set was the ultimate, so to
speak finger-licking-good. They once were the property of a former orphanage-member: Günther Dürringer.
Two photographs do show the actual visored cap and the inner with the manufacturers logo from Ahlers in Postdam.
Further two photographs in wear. Also shown the field-cap with its two colors, as well as two photographs, which do
show the wearing of the typical field-cap. The both caps do show the bond with the army: the green cap band and
the lower part for the cap in green. Note the tip of this lower part of the flap should have a grommet.
This in contrary to a set, which in my opinion is a pure 99,9% reproduction, which was sometimes ago offered at
Hermann Historica, in spite of the fact of their defence it being original (I do not care what their opinion is. I know
what I know).
and the related announcement (which is somewhat delayed, but will come soon) I would like to show the
members of the forum my favorite from his collection, which is vanished also.
PS: I was lucky, as I was allowed to have a preview at the planned website. I think the collecting world
will be pleased when the website finally is "airborne"!
If you see the both items offered somewhere, shown below, please do contact me with a PM
With various visits to my friend in Belgium I always anxiously awaited to see again the quite rare set of headgear,
a visored cap and field cap for the Grosses Militär-Waisenhaus, Potsdam. For me this set was the ultimate, so to
speak finger-licking-good. They once were the property of a former orphanage-member: Günther Dürringer.
Two photographs do show the actual visored cap and the inner with the manufacturers logo from Ahlers in Postdam.
Further two photographs in wear. Also shown the field-cap with its two colors, as well as two photographs, which do
show the wearing of the typical field-cap. The both caps do show the bond with the army: the green cap band and
the lower part for the cap in green. Note the tip of this lower part of the flap should have a grommet.
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This in contrary to a set, which in my opinion is a pure 99,9% reproduction, which was sometimes ago offered at
Hermann Historica, in spite of the fact of their defence it being original (I do not care what their opinion is. I know
what I know).
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