Hi everyone,
I just wanted to get everyone's opinions on this cap. I am really a novice at identifying items and I can't seem to find all the information I need from googling...
Here's all that I know about it from what I can see and what I've been told:
- it seems to have aluminium type piping around the top of the cap and around the top and bottom of the black band
- the black band feels something like velvet
- the insignia looks to be made of something coppery
- the buttons holding the cap cords are made of the same coppery metal
- the totenkopf is broken, the bones seemed to have snapped from the left of the skull
- the hat itself has a few 'injuries', it has a hole just left of the totenkopf which goes all the way through the hard material underneath and emerges on the inside of the hat. It also has a full thickness hole at the top.
- the sweatband feels to be leather, it is a blueish grey colour
- the inside of the sweatband has cork behind it on the front section of the cap
- the inside of the hat feels like silk, the sides are a dark blue and the section with the manufacturer's logo is dark grey or possibly once a shade of greyish blue
- the maker appears to be a manufacturer called 'Das Zeichen fur Wertarbeit MWS (1877)'. I found one other reference to this maker at a post here: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=981320
- apparently this cap was found in the Alsace region
From what I've read, the aluminium piping indicates that it is a General's hat, or that it belonged to someone on the personal staff of the RFSS. I don't know what the insignia are made of and why they are not silver, and I really would like to know more about this manufacturer. I've seen a couple of other General's caps online and most have beige silk lining with a brown sweatband on the inside, however this one has grey silk and a blue sweatband.
Can anyone shed any light on this mysterious cap?
I just wanted to get everyone's opinions on this cap. I am really a novice at identifying items and I can't seem to find all the information I need from googling...
Here's all that I know about it from what I can see and what I've been told:
- it seems to have aluminium type piping around the top of the cap and around the top and bottom of the black band
- the black band feels something like velvet
- the insignia looks to be made of something coppery
- the buttons holding the cap cords are made of the same coppery metal
- the totenkopf is broken, the bones seemed to have snapped from the left of the skull
- the hat itself has a few 'injuries', it has a hole just left of the totenkopf which goes all the way through the hard material underneath and emerges on the inside of the hat. It also has a full thickness hole at the top.
- the sweatband feels to be leather, it is a blueish grey colour
- the inside of the sweatband has cork behind it on the front section of the cap
- the inside of the hat feels like silk, the sides are a dark blue and the section with the manufacturer's logo is dark grey or possibly once a shade of greyish blue
- the maker appears to be a manufacturer called 'Das Zeichen fur Wertarbeit MWS (1877)'. I found one other reference to this maker at a post here: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=981320
- apparently this cap was found in the Alsace region
From what I've read, the aluminium piping indicates that it is a General's hat, or that it belonged to someone on the personal staff of the RFSS. I don't know what the insignia are made of and why they are not silver, and I really would like to know more about this manufacturer. I've seen a couple of other General's caps online and most have beige silk lining with a brown sweatband on the inside, however this one has grey silk and a blue sweatband.
Can anyone shed any light on this mysterious cap?
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