Heer Officer visor cap?

[Steve Conway]

Hi,

Could I get some advice on this one? I bought it with the Allgemeine SS EMs cap I showed on this forum.

If I could get an idea of approximate price range that would also be appreciated.

The cap is marked on the inside with what appears to be the owners name, but there are not many other markings as there were with the Allgemeine Cap.

The quality of the material used is very good and the cap itself is quite a beautiful item, far more so than the Allgemeine Cap.

Any and all comments positive or negative greatly appreciated.

Regards

Steve

[Steve Conway]

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[Steve Conway]

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[Steve Conway]

Interior again

[DonC]

Hi Steve -

The cap is fine but the piping looks like it's been dyed or colored green - according to the handwriting on the underside of the sweatband, the piping should be white for Infantry.

Don

[NTZ]

With out any doubt an original visor but I agree on the piping.

[JuanS]

Hi

I am not a visor guy, but it look like a Pekuro or "franchise" pekuro. It has the Stirndruckfrei construction.

Juan

[Steve Conway]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the info, any idea why the piping would have been dyed? Are caps with green piping more valuable than white piped ones?

Regards

Steve

[NTZ]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the info, any idea why the piping would have been dyed? Are caps with green piping more valuable than white piped ones?

Regards

Steve

They are worth more but this was also done period for transfers. Now way to tell when it was done though.

[fknorr]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the info, any idea why the piping would have been dyed? Are caps with green piping more valuable than white piped ones?

Regards

Steve

Depends on the "green" i guess....

[Steve Conway]

Hi guys,

Just been out to check on some uniform references and the info in there shows light green waffenfarbe for both Jaeger and Gebirgsjaeger. I thought that the writing on the inside shows 1/21 JR which I thought was an indication for a jaeger unit. Are you guys reading the JR as IR or are my references not correct?

Thanks again for your help.

regards

Steve

[stonemint]

My take is "JR" (Jaeger Regt), not "IR". I don't see the dye job, but there does appear to be some fading. Easiest way to tell is to check the hidden part of the piping by lightly pulling the gray wool back to see the color of the base of the piping.

[NTZ]

It certainly could be faded. These greens tend to fade more than other colors. Like stonemint said, pull the piping and take a look.

[Kreager]

It sure looks like a "JR" to me. Now we just need to know if there really was such a Jaeger Regiment.

Definitely check the piping in the tight creases where the piping is attached to the cap, just as others have mentioned.

[DonC]

The German "I" for Infanterie is written like a "J" . The German J has the bar all the way across the top of the J, while on the I it only goes to the center. That always confused me when I started out. This cap belonged (at some point, if the writing is wartime) to somebody from the first company of Infantry Regiment 21. (1/J.R. 21).

Don