Description
Product Description: This Luftwaffe NCO Visor is a very appealing display object. The exterior of this high-quality, private purchase cap is made of a beautiful tricot wool fabric, with a visible diagonal weave. There is a small amount of moth damage in some areas of the exterior. The light Luftwaffe blue shade of the fabric looks beautiful with the golden yellow wool piping, indicating flight or paratrooper branch. The front of this cap boasts a correct and attractive set of early insignia, with the cockade and eagle both made of pre-war aluminum. The enlisted/NCO chinstrap and visor are intact and show slight age with scattered small marks. Inside, this lovely NCO visor shows only minimal wear. It’s well marked, with the name of the maker, Robert Lubstein, and the date “1938.” The attractive graphics on the fully intact celluloid sweatshield identify this cap model as an “Erel Sonderklasse.” The leather sweatband is completely intact, and is double unit stamped- once for 4./Flieger-Ersatz-Abteilung 63, and again for 4./Flieger-Ausbildungs-Regiment 63, Luftwaffe flight training units. Overall, this desirable cap remains in excellent condition.
Historical Description: The visor cap (Schirmmütze) was an important part of the headgear worn by German uniformed military, civil, paramilitary and political organizations during the Third Reich. This was the standard cloth headgear worn as a part of the service uniform. Visor caps were worn outdoors, as well as indoors, and were often required to be worn by all personnel on duty. Visor caps were made in versions specific to each organization and were often further differentiated through the use of insignia, colored piping, or style of chin cord, to indicate rank, role or branch. The insignia used on these caps ranged from simple stamped metal emblems, to elaborate hand embroidery. Visor caps were issued to enlisted soldiers and NCOs in the military and in some other organizations. Officers had to purchase their own hats, and lower ranks could choose to purchase caps that were of a higher quality than the rather basic, issue examples. The private purchase caps were generally made in very high quality, with fine materials. A wide variety of fabrics were used, from Trikot and doeskin, to heavy wool, or even lightweight white fabric for summer wear. In the military, issue of these caps was generally suspended shortly after the outbreak of the war, but they continued to be worn by some troops until the end of the war.
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