Germany, Heer. An Engineers Officer’s Visor Cap, Named and Unit-Attributed, by Edwin Handschug

(Heer Schirmmütze für Offizier der Pioniere). An extremely well-preserved Heer Engineers Officer’s visor cap, constructed of field-grey wool. It features reinforced side walls, fully lined on the exterior with a dark green wool cap band. Both the top and bottom edges of the cap band are trimmed with bands of black piping, while an additional band of identical piping fully trims the outer edge of the crown. Pinned onto the peak of the cap is an aluminum insignia consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, measuring 64 mm (w) x 26 mm (h). Beneath the eagle, the centre of the cap band is pinned with a tri-colour cockade set within an oak leaf wreath, both constructed of aluminum and measuring 70 mm (w) x 45 mm (h) overall. The cap band is flanked by pebbled magnetic metal buttons securing in place a chinstrap constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping. Completing the exterior features is a protruding vulcanfibre visor, finished in black on the obverse and in light brown on the reverse. The interior of the side walls is lined with a beige leather sweatband, perforated across the forehead with an array of ventilation holes. It is also encompassed by a multi-piece beige rayon lid, with the crown retaining an intact transparent plastic rhomboid moisture guard. Inserted into the guard is a tag bearing an owner’s name of “ALBERT”, above a partially-legible handwritten unit attribution from “8. KOMP” of an indecipherable regiment. Also visible on the guard is a maker’s mark of “EDWIN HANDSCHUG, SCHNEIDERMEISTER, REHAGEN, KRS. TETLOW”. The cap measures approximately 23.5 cm (w) x 26 cm (l) x 17 cm (h). Material fatigue and soiling consistent with field wear are evident to the sweatband and liner, respectively, but the cap is an otherwise unusually well-preserved example in extremely fine condition.