Thanks to colleagues for their little photo essays. Derek Chapman's black kepi has to be the single most extraordinary piece of SS headwear I have ever seen. The opera cap mechanism is astonishing and the pre-1929 cap badges are likewise staggering, to say nothing of the leather peak. Shea has a NSDAP kepi with such a leather peak, as well, but such a brown piece is a shadow of this kepi. The early caps were better made than the later kind, I think. The Lieferungsmuetzen from Wille and Mueller from Vondrack are nice adjuncts to the caps I have illustrated. For the novice seeker of knowledge, this file contains special material of great rarity and importance. And, it is not choked with all these infuriating fakes which burn out one's soul. Viel Sammlerglueck!
