Here is the NCO blue top
and another example of an NCO cap.
Note the different colours of lining and the use on some better quality caps of a interwoven ribbon running through the sweatband.
I noticed from some of the other images Michel sent that one of the caps is maker marked for Bernhard Plauser/ Köln - Berlin. This seemes to be a prolific maker. I have had a few KM visors with this mark. The NCO cap I have currently has the same mark, also stamped on the inside face of the leather chinstrap.
Note that it is common on issue NCO caps ( and occasionally, though not common on officer caps) for their to be no celluloid sweat diamond. One of my NCO caps has a sweat diamond the other doesn't.
Thanks to Michel for the great photos. Anyone else out there have photos of KM caps to contribute ?
Gordon
[ 22 August 2001: Message edited by: Gordon Williamson ]
and another example of an NCO cap.
Note the different colours of lining and the use on some better quality caps of a interwoven ribbon running through the sweatband.
I noticed from some of the other images Michel sent that one of the caps is maker marked for Bernhard Plauser/ Köln - Berlin. This seemes to be a prolific maker. I have had a few KM visors with this mark. The NCO cap I have currently has the same mark, also stamped on the inside face of the leather chinstrap.
Note that it is common on issue NCO caps ( and occasionally, though not common on officer caps) for their to be no celluloid sweat diamond. One of my NCO caps has a sweat diamond the other doesn't.
Thanks to Michel for the great photos. Anyone else out there have photos of KM caps to contribute ?
Gordon
[ 22 August 2001: Message edited by: Gordon Williamson ]
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