Description
Nice quality, private purchase, field-gray tricot wool construction visor cap features a blue/green, badge cloth centerband and gold wire piping to the crown edge and both the top and bottom edges of the centerband. The front center of the cap has a gold washed, second pattern, (circa 1935-1945), die stamped, gilt aluminum construction, national eagle with out-stretched wings, clutching a wreathed, canted, swastika in the talons and the front center of the centerband also has a nice matching gilt aluminum cockade. The cap has a twisted, gilt wire chin cord secured to the cap by two, small, gold washed, pebbled, stamped magnetic sheet metal buttons. The cap has an extended, forward, black lacquered, vulcanfibre visor with a subtly raised lip near the forward edge that shows wear from the chinstrap. Full liner, sweat shield and sweatband. Roughly a size 56/57 and named Knobelsdorff under the sweat rhomboid. The sweat shield protects the wonderful, and attractive ‘Elegant’ distributor mark. Very nice example with nice looking, matching wear/age throughout, there are no seam lines on the exterior, and the pleats on the inside lining are also still present, indicating this cap has never been reworked/repaired.
