Heer M43 with single button

[keifer kahn]

Marty,

i read you initial paragraph and noted your reference to "chain stitch".
Were you referring to the style used to sew the cap together or the stitching around the button hole?
The style holding your cap together looks like the standard double needle style.
chain stitch is a decorative style and is used for example on custom officers cufftitles edges.

[GJR100]

Great caps guys !

Bart

[derspiess63]

Marty,
as I have told you during our exchange of PMs,the very same person who found your M43 found a single button M43 as well, with a T shaped insigna!
This hat had a blue/black lining and was a one-looker !Yours is very similar and imo is as genuine as they come,and I love our Finnish's friend one as well!
Great caps buddies
Manny

P.S.;Marty's cap was found in Italy, in a Tuscany's area full of enprisonment camps where tens of thousands of POWs had been gathered towards the end of the war.....one of this camps was inside one of biggest Tuscany's farms....farms have barns .....time to start another thread here !

[MartyC]

m43

Thanks for the comments on the hat my friends! As to my terminology on the stitching, I suppose it would be best to call it straight line machine stitching as opposed to "chain" stitching.

thanks

Marty

[airborne_steve]

Marty, that is a sweet M43!

I have see overseas hats with the same lining (I think the satin material is the same found as sleeve lining in tailored officers tunics, etc.) I guess the tailors had a lot of this type of material to repair hat lining?

Steve

Thanks for the comments on the hat my friends! As to my terminology on the stitching, I suppose it would be best to call it straight line machine stitching as opposed to "chain" stitching.

thanks

Marty

[Nordfront]

Hello,

Actually the lining on my cap doesn't seem to have been replaced. There are no signs of that at all. IMO because it was most likely tailor made private purchase piece it has lining that is made of tunic sleeve lining material.

By the way this cap has shadow of it's original insignia left and those were not WH...

[derspiess63]

Hello,

Actually the lining on my cap doesn't seem to have been replaced. There are no signs of that at all. IMO because it was most likely tailor made private purchase piece it has lining that is made of tunic sleeve lining material.

By the way this cap has shadow of it's original insignia left and those were not WH...

Right....they (the caps)were more often than not encountered worn by WSS guys!