Heer Cavalry Officer Visor

Product Description: This Heer Cavalry Officer Visor is a one-look original cap. It probably started life as a prewar issue enlisted visor, then was upgraded by the wearer with a braided wire chin cord and pebbled buttons for officer wear. The exterior of the cap is made of a typical gray-green tricot fabric with a diagonal weave. This wool fabric shows mothing throughout, with tracking and numerous small nips but no big holes or major damage. The dark green cap band retains great original color, and the patent leather visor is perfect, with a great shine. The insignia on this cap are an early pattern, made of aluminum. The desirable golden yellow Cavalry branch piping is still bright and beautiful. Inside, this cap has a typical rust colored lining. The celluloid sweatshield is intact, with a couple of minor losses on one edge. Under the sweatshield is a size marking in black ink, “57-1/2.” There is some moth damage to the rim around the bottom of the cap. The sweatband is intact and complete. it is probably maker marked and dated under the sweatband, but we recommend not disturbing it as this material is now 80 years old and fragile. This Heer Cavalry officer visor is an attractive piece, made particularly desirable by the scarce and beautiful golden piping. Overall, the condition of this cap rates as very good.

Historical Description: The visor cap (Schirmmütze) was an important part of the headgear worn by German uniformed military, civil, paramilitary and political organizations during the Third Reich. This was the standard cloth headgear worn as a part of the service uniform. Visor caps were worn outdoors, as well as indoors, and were often required to be worn by all personnel on duty. Visor caps were made in versions specific to each organization and were often further differentiated through the use of insignia, colored piping, or style of chin cord, to indicate rank, role or branch. The insignia used on these caps ranged from simple stamped metal emblems, to elaborate hand embroidery. Visor caps were issued to enlisted soldiers and NCOs in the military and in some other organizations. Officers had to purchase their own hats, and lower ranks could choose to purchase caps that were of a higher quality than the rather basic, issue examples. The private purchase caps were generally made in very high quality, with fine materials. A wide variety of fabrics were used, from Trikot and doeskin, to heavy wool, or even lightweight white fabric for summer wear. In the military, issue of these caps was generally suspended shortly after the outbreak of the war, but they continued to be worn by some troops until the end of the war.

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