...this week! As you all know, I am not just a visor geek, I am a civil visor geek. We've seen a lot of WH and SS caps over the past 2 weeks, and its now time to get "civil" with each other.
Presented for your review is a visor from that long-neglected TR organisation, the Bergbaudienst (Mining Service). While not a glamour organisation by any means, if there was anything that was completely essential to the war effort, it was these guys, as coal is what ran the TR.
Their uniforms are quite gaudy, especially when worn with the Shakos.
This is called simply a mining service officials cap. Most of these that you see are the first-style, with red piping and the crossed pick and hammer and cockade for insignia. Those hats were worn from 1935-1940.
In late 1940/early 1941, the Bergbaudienst underwent a visor cap change.
The band remained black velvet and the body black wool, but the piping was changed from red to golden-yellow (like WH cav). The hat was also changed from tellerform to sattelform, and it was ordered that the Adler be pinned on over the pick and hammer.
These caps are much rarer than the red-piped, as presumably many miners didn't bother with the change-over during wartime.
I'll do a "Ron R. Mode of Presentation":
Presented for your review is a visor from that long-neglected TR organisation, the Bergbaudienst (Mining Service). While not a glamour organisation by any means, if there was anything that was completely essential to the war effort, it was these guys, as coal is what ran the TR.
Their uniforms are quite gaudy, especially when worn with the Shakos.
This is called simply a mining service officials cap. Most of these that you see are the first-style, with red piping and the crossed pick and hammer and cockade for insignia. Those hats were worn from 1935-1940.
In late 1940/early 1941, the Bergbaudienst underwent a visor cap change.
The band remained black velvet and the body black wool, but the piping was changed from red to golden-yellow (like WH cav). The hat was also changed from tellerform to sattelform, and it was ordered that the Adler be pinned on over the pick and hammer.
These caps are much rarer than the red-piped, as presumably many miners didn't bother with the change-over during wartime.
I'll do a "Ron R. Mode of Presentation":
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Lovely cap....
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