$965.00
Condition: Excellent
In stock
Product Description: A well-preserved and desirable example of a 6th Cavalry Overseas Cap with Yellow Soutache, constructed of field grey wool with machine-woven national insignia and original Cavalry branch soutache to the front in yellow. This cap is unit-marked on the interior, stamped 10./K.R. 6, indicating issue to the 10th Company of the 6th Cavalry Regiment. The exterior condition is excellent, with strong color and only a minor moth nip located near the left wing of the eagle insignia. Period ventilation grommets are present on each side, consistent with regulation field caps of the era.
The interior is fully lined in greenish-brown cotton and stamped with the size 56, a clear 1937 date, and full maker’s mark, enhancing its authenticity and appeal to collectors of prewar Wehrmacht headgear. The 6th Cavalry Overseas Cap with Yellow Soutache represents a classic interwar cavalry cap, notable for its regimental marking and early construction. Such complete, dated examples with intact soutache and insignia are increasingly difficult to find, especially in such untouched excellent condition.
Historical Description: The “sidecap” 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 sidecap gave it the nickname “Schiffchen,” meaning little boat, due to its shape. The sidecaps were made in the same type of fabric as the uniforms, in the uniform color particular to each organization. The sidecaps were adorned with branch-specific insignia, usually bearing some form of the German eagle and swastika national emblem. Many sidecaps 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 sidecap with a new, more practical cap featuring a brim, by 1943. But the sidecap continued to be worn by some troops until the end of the war.
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