Description
Product Description: This is a fantastic, rare Luftwaffe Flight Engineer summer visor. It’s a textbook example of a hard-to-find cap. The removable white top is made of a knit fabric. It shows no damage, and just a few small areas of spotting and light soiling. The black ribbed cap band is flanked with eye-catching pink wool piping indicating “flight engineer.” There is one small moth nip to the pink piping on the wearer’s right side. The black leather chincord and black retaining buttons are in place and show no issues. The front of the cap features a complete set of correct early aluminum insignia. Both the wreath and eagle show sharp detail. Inside, this Luftwaffe flight engineer summer visor shows typical details. The thin leather sweatband is intact, with one small tear where the band was intentionally mended together to make a full sweatband. There are no markings to note. This is a beautiful cap with outstanding eye appeal. It would be hard to upgrade this. The condition rates as excellent plus plus.
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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