Germany, Heer. An Armoured Officer’s Overseas Field Cap

(Heer Schiffchen für Offiziere der Panzertruppe). A Heer Armoured Officer’s overseas field cap, constructed of field-grey wool. The cap is fully surrounded by fold-down side panels, scalloped at the front. The panels are trimmed across the peak with a length of silver aluminum wire piping, while an additional length of identical piping trims the outer edge of the crown. Stitched onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a field-grey rayon backer bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, measuring 68 mm (w) x 28 mm (h). Stitched onto the front of the panels is an aluminum wire tricolour cockade measuring 25 mm in diameter. Surrounding the cockade is a rose-pink embroidered soutache. The interior is fully encompassed by a multi-piece grey rayon liner. It is unmarked with the exception of a size stamp of “59” on the crown. The cap measures approximately 300 mm (l) x 130 mm (h) when folded on a flat surface. Issues consistent with age and wear are evident, including material fatigue of the outer wool and wire, fraying of the cockade, soiling of the interior liner, and the loss of a length of sweatband formerly set across the forehead. This field-worn example is in an overall very fine condition.