Show Us Your Branch-Piped W-SS Visor

[TonyS]

skull

[SScollector]

GN58, could you please post a good close-up picture of the head of the eagle that is on your SS visor with the 499/41 skull?
I could be wrong, but going by the small pictures, I believe the skull and eagle are both, reproductions.

Thanks! Chris

[Donald Abenheim]

alles grau in grau.....

Here is a photo of an original SS-VT officer's service cap, albeit with white piping. Unfortunately I don't have more pictures of this one but the interior shows indents and holes where two metal disks with the former owner's initials were. My friend has been seeking a nice set of period (to the SS-VT) cap insignia to restore it.

Donald,

Whenever you refer to "Gray" caps, this is what I think you're talking about, however, I believe you're referring to the gray-green covers, am I right?

Happy New Year to all of my fellow collectors!

Bob

Thank you for the above. By grey I mean field grey or earth grey as distinguished from black, actually. However, by grey I also mean the variety of field grey---the wide variation of same. Now that we have the Beaver book, I guess I do not mean earth brown, however. Sorry for any misunderstanding I may have inflicted on the innocent here.

[Donald Abenheim]

Aber ja!

looks Janke-ish

I second the opinion of my gifted colleague. The Riefkogel cap is quite something. Good old Peter Jenkins knows how to find them, nicht wahr? It is so sad he does not report in here, nor elsewhere any longer. This is not the kind of thing (that is, the Pz Schirmmuetze) one finds at garage sales, I guess.

[GN58]

Cris,
This is the best I can do.
GN58

[GN58]

met.eagle

[GN58]

Unfortunately this Kraftfahrer off.is a repro visor of 1980(with fake metal ins.).
Thanks at all for comments.
But I want to show my favorite visor PZ off.- rare,ORIGINAL and UNTOUCHED.
All the best.
GN58

[GN58]

interior

[GN58]

side

[John Pic]

"Stirndruckfrei" Doesnt this indicate a manufacturing style that appears absent in this pink piped cap? Im afraid Ive spent too much time on tunics to really know enough to say for sure.I would think the interior should resemble that of my old white piped cap.

[John Pic]

Here it is

[TonyS]

John,

Stirndruckfrei equates to "Forehead pressure free" or no pressure on the forehead.

I believe your Pekuro cap used the extra line of black fabric to achieve this and many others used the red colored foam rubber - Schaumgummi - behind the front of the sweat band. There are probably other methods too.

It must have been a problem with these caps causing pressure on the front of the head (probably giving the wearers headaches)

[drbill]

excellent and informative thread!!!
thanks to all

[SScollector]

Thank you very much, GN58!
I sure would love to see the back side of that eagle.
Could you please post a close-up picture
of the back side of the eagle?

Thanks again! Chris

[Antiquefrog]

A few random thoughts: 1) I don't think, from my experience with KM caps, that "free from forehead pressure" can be verified from a picture; the black liner can have sinister implications as well; 2) I do like the simple honesty of Tony2411's Riefkogel cap, and would very much like to own it; 3) colleague GN58's Kraftfahrer submission has apparent flaws, but the second cap seems intriguing - could you turn down the sweatband for a pic and give us another view of the sweatband front and a close-up of the sweatband stitching?