SS Panzer Officer Overseas Cap

Product Description: This SS Panzer Officer Overseas Cap is a very rare piece of Waffen-SS headgear. It’s a typical tailor made, private purchase style. The exterior of this handsome field cap is made from a top-quality black tricot wool with a fine, smooth surface. The insignia have been removed at some point. Remnants of original hand applied stitching show where the SS eagle and Totenkopf emblems were previously affixed to the front of the cap. The perimeter of the cap features nice silver bullion piping, indicating an officer rank.  The piping is machine sewn with two rows of stitching. Inside, this SS Panzer Officer Overseas Cap is lined with a very fine black cotton twill fabric. There are no markings, as is normal with a tailor-made piece like this. This cap displays light wear and use inside and out. There is no mothing or other damage to note. It’s a very desirable field cap that displays very well, and is in excellent condition.

Historical Description: The “side cap” was a part of the uniform worn by nearly all military, paramilitary, political and civil organizations in the Third Reich. It was a narrow hat that could be folded flat and tucked into a belt or haversack. This was, at the time, a very stylish type of uniform cap; in the German Army, it replaced the round “pork pie” style of field cap used in the Great War. The German name for this cap, in most organizations, was “Feldmütze”- field cap. Despite the name, it was often worn as a daily service cap by postal workers and other personnel who would never be deployed to the field.  The men and women who wore the side cap gave it the nickname “Schiffchen,” meaning little boat, due to its shape. The side caps were made in the same type of fabric as the uniforms, in the uniform color particular to each organization. The side caps were adorned with branch-specific insignia, usually bearing some form of the German eagle and swastika national emblem. Many side caps also bore red, white, and black national cockades. The insignia were usually embroidered or woven, but metal devices were used on some caps as well. Officer caps generally were distinguished by silver braid along the top edge and/or on the upper part of the flap at the front of the cap and were often custom tailored from fine fabrics. The German military, and many other organizations, had broadly replaced the side cap with a new, more practical cap featuring a brim, by 1943. But the side cap continued to be worn by some troops until the end of the war.

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