Condition: Excellent
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Product Description: This Heer Signals officer visor is an appealing, all-original piece. It’s a private purchase, tailor-made cap, typical of officer headgear. The exterior of this finely made cap is constructed of top quality doeskin wool, in an attractive, light field gray shade. The Waffenfarbe piping is a bright lemon yellow color, indicating the Nachrichten (Signals) branch. The cap band is a dark green wool, with great original color. The front of the cap has a complete set of hand-embroidered bullion insignia. The eagle and cockade are both complete and undamaged, and are hand applied to the cap, which is typical. The exterior of the cap shows some age and patina throughout, with some scattered marks as well as some moth nipping to the wool piping in areas. The correct chin cord is present, and the visor shows normal age crazing. Inside, this Heer Signals officer visor has a tan cotton lining. The celluloid sweat diamond is missing, and there is no maker emblem. The fragile leather sweatband shows creasing and some wear but is otherwise intact. This is a handsome and desirable cap, with a combat / field worn look. The overall condition rates as excellent.
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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