A Luftwaffe Air Communications Corps Visor Cap Named to Radio Operator Albert Maier

Fabricated in Luftwaffe blue gray Fliegerblau (Flier's Blue) wool, with a wide black ribbed rayon cap band, traditional high peak with matching brown piping along the top edge and flanking either side of the band, indicative of the Signals (Air Communications) Corps. It is decorated with a well-detailed silvered aluminum Luftwaffe eagle insignia on the peak and an oak leaf wreath with stylized wings and cockade on the band, the latter in silvered aluminum with a red and black painted cockade and bent on the wings where they meet the wreath on either side. The black smooth finished patent leather chin strap rests upon the visor, composed of three pieces, the central piece with two magnetic metal buckles and joined to the flanking end pieces via rectangular loops, the end pieces attached to black finished magnetic metal buttons on either side. The vulcanfibre visor has a smooth black leather-look upper and has a dark green synthetic underside. Inside of the cap with a sweatband in brown leather, the ends of the sweatband sewn together where the ends meet at the rear of the cap. The smooth-finished raw underside of the sweatband is marked "HL" and marked "837V" twice in handwritten black ink, date stamped in black ink "1938", with an additional stamp in black ink below the date stamp, much of which has faded. The inside of the cap is lined in a copper-coloured nylon, with the dome brandishing a celluloid moisture shield, marked in silver-coloured ink with the manufacturer's name on the nylon lining "Emil Schebeler Berlin N O 55 Immanuelkirchstr. 6 Gegr. 1870" and dated "1938", size stamped in black ink "57" above the manufacturer's name, with a paper label with the owner's name glued in place over the manufacturer's address, the label inscribed in pencil "Funker Albert Maier" (Radio Operator Albert Maier), all of which is under the shield. The cap measures 240 mm x 260 mm x 150 mm in height overall, the top of the cap exhibiting scattered signs of mothing, light crazing and edge wear evident on the vulcanfibre visor, the leather sweatband with extensive soiling from active use, the moisture shield experiencing cracking and partial loss. Worn but very fine.