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Germany, Heer. A Gebirgsjäger Officer’s Visor Cap, by Erel

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Germany, Heer. A Gebirgsjäger Officer’s Visor Cap, by Erel

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Germany, Heer. A Gebirgsjäger Officer’s Visor Cap, by Erel

(Heer Schirmmütze für Gebirgsjäger). A Heer Gebirgsjäger Officer’s visor cap, constructed of smooth field-grey wool. The cap features reinforced side walls, lined on the exterior with a dark green wool cap band. Light green piping fully surrounds the circumference of the crown, as well as the top and bottom of the cap band, indicating Gebirgsjäger personnel. Pinned onto the peak of the cap is an insignia in the form of an aluminum Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, measuring 65 mm (w) x 25 mm (h). Underneath the eagle is a gilded and silvered zink Gebirgsjäger-style edelweiss insignia, measuring 25 mm (w) x 25 mm (h). The exterior insignia completes with a central aluminum oak leaf wreath, surrounding a tri-colour cockade constructed of non-ferrous metal with a red magnetic metal mesh centrepiece. The cap is flanked on each side by pebbled magnetic metal buttons securing in place a decorative chinstrap constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire. A protruding vulcanfibre visor completes the exterior features, and is finished in a lacquered black on the obverse and in light brown on the reverse. The interior features a 45 mm-wide light brown leather sweatband, secured in place by a row of machine stitching and bearing an array of ventilation holes near the forehead. A beige rayon liner fully encompasses the interior, and features a transparent plastic moisture guard stitched onto the crown. Underneath the crown is a silver maker’s mark of “OFFIZIER KLEIDERKASSE, BERLIN” and “EREL, BERLIN”. An additional Erel mark is embossed onto the left side of the sweatband. It measures approximately 240 mm (w) x 255 mm (l) x 160 mm (h). While well-preserved, the cap displays issues consistent with age and field use, including material fatigue and mothing of the exterior wool, loss of finish to the visor, soiling and material fatigue of the sweatband and interior liner, and some distortion of the structure of the side walls. A well-worn example in overall very fine condition.