HG-1   Army Other Ranks (EM/NCO) “Extramütze” (Private Purchase Visor Cap) with Panzer Piping; Maker Marked
Made of good quality medium field grey Trikot wool with a regulation (round) top panel, and an overall teller shape. The material on this cap is in pretty nice condition, with only minor tracking to the top panel and a single pencil point-sized hole under the right overhang. The cap is regulation piped (no piping diameter exceeds 0.2mm) in the light pink (Rosa) Waffenfarbe (branch color) of the Panzer branch. I didn't detect any nips – the piping looks damage-free! The cap has a very nice metal eagle and wreath, with the bird lightly soiled, but probably aluminum, and the wreath definitely a matte finished aluminum. The Other Ranks chinstrap is in good condition with some vertical crazing and a dulled spot or two. One end has a little curl, aft of the chinstrap button. The Vulkanfiber visor is in nice shape with a fair amount of the original gloss remaining. The visor reverse (underside) is reddish-tan and, in fact, the interior is regulation matching colors with the natural leather sweatband also reddish-tan, and the woven cotton lining a slightly paler “rust” (i.e. light reddish-tan) color. Interesting that the sweatband was apparently not long enough originally, so an extra piece was added to one end where the overlap would normally be, to cover the gap – no surprise, as the lining beneath the fully intact moisture shield is stamped with a size of “60”, making this example pretty large!  The reverse of the sweatband has a maker’s name stamped in black ink, but this is partly obscured by the attachment stitching and only “Mützenfabrik, Jena“ (Cap Factory, Jena) remains legible. The interior is in really nice shape, and the cap overall rates near excellent. Nice Other Ranks Panzer visor!
$1,400.00

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