Spain, Francoist Era. An Army Garrison or Isabelino Forage Cap, c.1943

The exterior is fabricated from a coarse brownish-green wool, the rear and sides with a fold down flap that has two tabs, and when raised are positioned over one another on the top and joined together via a brown-finished wooden button. Both sides of the cap are trimmed in embroidered red piping in a trapezoid shape, incorporating three sides of the trapezium. There is an embroidered red cord with a tassel sewn in place at the seam along the top edge at the front and dangles downward, with a silvered badge affixed below just above the opening of the cap. The interior is lined in olive green cotton, stamped with a large box in black ink and inscribed in Spanish with a few markings the have faded with time above "TALLA 1" (Size 1), along with a "14" in blue handwritten ink, the cap measuring 275 mm (w) x 125 mm (h). Extremely fine.