SS overseas cap with early skulls

[entasis]

just wanted to share this photo with you folks of SS overseas caps with early skulls.

[billbert]

I bet the photo predates RZM specs for both hats and uniforms...Billbert

[PMan]

Photo

Any chance these are not Germans in the photo? The whole outfit seems foreign including the collar piping.
Peter

[derek]

Thanks for posting Tony.
They are definitely SS men. Members of the Politische Bereitschaften wore this early black field cap up to the autumn of 1934. It seems always to be worn with badge on the side.
Here is the cap being worn in the SS camp at the 1934 Nuremburg Rally.
Derek

[PMan]

Photo

I'm convinced.
Thanks for posting the photo. I,ve seen that shot before, but missed seeing the little skull.
Peter

[sgstandard]

great pics!!!!

Great pics. Some pics from the Heinrich Hoffman book, Jugend um Hitler.
HJ with the totenkopf insignia.

[Robin Lumsden]

The skull seems to be of this distinctive rounded type..................not the usual jawless SS variety.