vintage caps

[Blackthorn]

Woodrow Wilson styling:

 

[Trenchfriend]

Grandpa (middle), laying our smalltown's gas pipes in the very early 50s.

 

[Trenchfriend]

1953/54, Stalinstadt/Fürstenberg (Oder), later Eisenhüttenstadt. Grandpa and comrades.

Pics for eternity.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And probably Stalinstadt/Fürstenberg (Oder) 1953/54, too. Grandpa and comrades.

 

[Blackthorn]

Great finds, Trenchfriend

 

[Blackthorn]

"Organ grinder, New Orleans, 1924."

 

[Blackthorn]

A man spraying the top of a bus with an anti-flu virus during the 1918 pandemic. (Davis/Getty Images)

 

[Zombie_61]

A man spraying the top of a bus with an anti-flu virus during the 1918 pandemic. (Davis/Getty Images)

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They should have used Pears' Soap. I mean, if it was good enough to advertise on every seat...

 

[Blackthorn]

I don't know the year, but this is Piaras Béaslaí a well known Irish poet, born in 1881

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I don't know the year, but this is Piaras Béaslaí a well known Irish poet, born in 1881

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Looks like he is wearing some sort of ribbon or metal on his left lapel.

 

[Blackthorn]

Looks like he is wearing some sort of ribbon or metal on his left lapel.

I can't say for sure what that would be, but he was a veteran of the 1916 Rising and did 3 years in prison for it.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I can't say for sure what that would be, but he was a veteran of the 1916 Rising and did 3 years in prison for it.

I thought it might be some honor award bestowed him from his poetry.

 

[Blackthorn]

I thought it might be some honor award bestowed him from his poetry.

It could be, I just don't know.

 

[Simonds]

 

[Blackthorn]

 

[Old Mariner]

If this were more in my price range...

This vintage Norddeutscher Lloyd Handelsmarine cap. I tend to favor HAPAG (Hamburg Amerika Linie) as I already have a HAPAG flag cap insignia which is what the NDL flag is on this cap:

This I found in Collector's Guild. Barring this, a decent quality repro would make me just as happy. (And yes, I would wear it.)

 

[Trenchfriend]

If this were more in my price range...

This vintage Norddeutscher Lloyd Handelsmarine cap. I tend to favor HAPAG (Hamburg Amerika Linie) as I already have a HAPAG flag cap insignia which is what the NDL flag is on this cap:

This I found in Collector's Guild. Barring this, a decent quality repro would make me just as happy. (And yes, I would wear it.)

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Where's the pipe?

 

[Old Mariner]

Where's the pipe?

I'm a non-smoker, but I will take the drink.

 

[Blackthorn]

 

[Zombie_61]

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Jeez, even the children in that photo look like they would beat you up at the slightest provocation.