A Second War Croatian Army Medical Corps Officer's Visor Cap

This early type of cap was worn from mid-1942 until early 1944. Exterior in light brown wool with a chocolate brown band and a traditional high peak, with matching chocolate brown piping along the top edge and flanking either side of the band. There is a silver with red, white and blue enamelled Ustasha insignia on the peak, with a silvered aluminum second pattern (M1942) NHD field cap badge below on the band. The silver bullion chin cords are appropriately knotted at either end, designating the wearer to be an officer, and are attached to silvered buttons on either side. The vulcanfibre visor has a smooth black patent leather-look upper and has a black synthetic underside. The sweatband in reddish-brown leather, the inside of the cap lined in forest green rayon, with the dome brandishing a diamond-shaped celluloid moisture shield, printed in gold-coloured ink with the Croatian maker mark "Radionica svih vrsti kapa J. GREDELJ ZAGREB Ilica 89". The cap measures 240 mm x 260 mm x 150 mm in height, exhibiting light soiling on top and in the rayon lining in the dome, crazing on the vulcanfibre visor, silvering loss on the chin cord button on the left side, cracking in the moisture shield, wear and cracking on the sweatband with the stitching at the ends having separated, the cap free of mothing. Very fine.