Luftwaffe Flight NCO Visor

Product Description:  A nice  example of a WWII-era Luftwaffe Flight NCO Visor, exhibiting outstanding originality and overall preservation. Constructed from fine-quality Luftwaffe blue-grey wool, the cap retains a deep, even nap with only a few spots of mothing and  tracking. The band around the hat has material loss to both the left and right sides.  The body is sharply tailored, displaying the crisp contours and balanced proportions characteristic of wartime manufacture.

The original Luftwaffe eagle and national cockade are correctly affixed and remain firmly in place—the eagle showing attractive luster and the cockade retaining most of the original paint with light wear to high points. The maker’s mark is stamped into the dome of the hat, but has mostly faded away.  The date appears to be 1935, and the size 57 stamp is still visible.

Inside, the leather sweatband shows age-related cracking with areas of sympathetic tape repair to the rear to maintain integrity. The visor edge exhibits minor losses to the surface material, consistent with honest age and handling.

Overall, this Luftwaffe Flak EM Visor represents a fine and authentic example of the type, combining strong visual appeal with complete original insignia.

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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