Crusher, officer field police?

[Allan P.]

Well another one for your comments, opinions please.

What do you think?

Is the eagle and cockade original to the cap? Looks a difference in age?

Thanks,

Allan

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Thanks,

Allan

[pauke]

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A very interesting well used cap. There isn't much else the officer could have done to customize this. "E S" perhaps saw his father's old WW 1 field cap with camouflage band and decided to imitate the look.(ha ha) Could you show where the added on cloth band is sewn together? No telling whether the wreath and eagle were put on at the same time, but if there are no other holes for the pins on the wreath then it is likely the original one.

[darekm]

Yes, I would like to see what colour is the band underneath!

[enorepap]

Hallo Allan

I see the difference in age among the eagle and cockade which is a bit off center. I do not understand how the eagle was stitched, even if I see no sign of an underneath previous stitching. I have not even an explanation for the felt band, applied in a very dismissive way, and then I think it is important to see what's under it. The interior is convincing and I see no signs of a re-stitched lining, peak and sweatband. It would require also a judgment on the cardboard and on the stiffener (shot no. 6) that I am not able to judge. All in all an interesting cap, but worthy of further investigation.

Best regards

[Allan P.]

Here you are chaps, more photos.

Thanks,

Allan

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[HAF]

brown band was polizei used ,so its a ex polizei visor cap with wh insignia,maybe reworked for front use .

[enorepap]

At first glance an Ordnungspolizei visor (I think the dirty lining shows a fainted eReL logo) for the rural Gendarmerie. Maybe a rural-policeman transferred to the WH Gendarmerie during the early transitional period.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...darmerie+visor
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...darmerie+visor
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...darmerie+visor
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...darmerie+visor
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...darmerie+visor
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...darmerie+visor
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...niforms&page=7

Here it is where it gets interesting. An example of a triple serial visor:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...darmerie+visor

I think the solution is thus to identify the exact color of the felt overlapping band and establish (though I have seen well, of course) if the lining is original and so if the visor is attributable to the TR eReL’s production.

(to be continued)

[Dave C.]

That was a rural police (Gendarmerie) cap, much like the one pictured below and then possibly used in transition for Feld-Gendarmerie. Not unheard of, they converted their caps. I have some transitional caps including a side cap.

[Kurt]

I handled this cap personally when it surfaced with a couple of other items (photos etc...) a couple of years ago. It is a reworked true Erel police crusher. Unfortunately, I couldn't agree on a price with the seller so he decided to sell it through Hermann Historica (where it fetched a fraction of what I had offered him).

It belonged to an officer who was assigned to the East and I may have saved a couple of images of this piece in wear. Will try to dig them out... Kurt