Pz-Sidecap

[madandi]

What do you think about this Schiffchen?

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[madandi]

No one?
OK. more information.
There are no grommets. The eagle is a real early one, the cockarde looks like KM, becaus it looks blue on the side.
There is a false piping on the front, like an SS-sidecap. The woolpiping aroung the "flap" is a original wollen one.
The soutache is also correct, sewn with pink thread outside and black inside.
The lining is black linen, like the lining of a usual M34 sidecap, just black.
There is also a name tag in the cap. Sewn with white thread.

[Luca Ongaro]

I have already seen it but not in hands for inspection, construction is correct, I have not a bad feeling with this cap.
Luca

[billbert]

I am sorry it got kicked off of ebay... Billbert

[madandi]

[colt45s]

I guess its as good as this one

[madandi]

Thanks for your opinions!

[phild]

For what my opinion may be worth, I think that the cap is of the period and it certainly looks like the soutache was applied when the cap was made. That said, I do not believe that it is a contract German Army cap so that leaves a private purchase or a cap from another service (some kind of police or maybe fire-police) that was adapted....but then that last guess does NOT explain the maker applied pink soutache.

I think that with a rule breaker like this one you will not get very many responses...certainly not favorable ones as it is not in the safe zone and requires a departure from the cut and dry textbook pz OS caps.

My best estimate is that it is a private purchase cap, possibly pre-dating (maybe by a year or more, hence the piping) the 1940 formal adoption of the black fieldcap and may in fact be from a small lot of such caps commissioned for sale to be worn off-duty (I know it still broke the regulations) or less likely by a a small unit to be worn on duty...also against regs...unless done after adoption but before actuall issue availability of the standard 1940 Black OS cap.

We know that some officers had them made 6 months or longer before they were even adopted...so my guess is not without some proven practice.

One last thing: I have a cap just like yours, sans the piping and the soutache, that I got 25 years ago from the German family along with a photo (studio) of their father wearing the same cap during the war, he was at the time(of the photo not when I got the cap!) with PZ rgt.1. So there is no doubt that caps made just like yours were worn during WWII by at least some (1) pz troop(s).

[Bob Hritz]

Are the insignae on blue BeVo?

Bob Hritz

[Glenn McInnes]

I would rather have a factory produced Pz overseas,but I like the looks of it.





Glenn

[Mike Bollow]

It's just wierd enough to stand a chance...