Germany, Heer. A Medical Officer’s Visor Cap, by N. Schega & Neffe

(Schirmmütze für Offiziere der Sanitätstruppe). A unique, privately-purchased visor cap for a Heer Medical Officer, constructed of field-grey whipcord wool. It features reinforced side walls with a dark green wool exterior liner, trimmed along both the top and bottom edges with dark blue Waffenfarbe wool piping. An additional band of dark blue piping fully surrounds the crown. Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia consisting of a dark green wool backer bearing a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika. The eagle insignia measures 70 mm (w) x 35 mm (h) overall. Underneath the eagle, the centre of the cap band features an additional insignia consisting of a padded dark green wool backer bearing a central non-ferrous metal tricolour cockade, within a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire oak leaf wreath. It measures 70 mm (w) x 45 mm (h). The exterior exterior features are complete with a protruding black pressed leather visor, which is securely set into the structure of the cap with machine stitching. Notably, the crown lacks an interior reinforcement and there is no chinstrap, intended to give the impression of a crusher cap. The interior features a 35 mm-wide brown leather sweatband, as well as a padded, multi-piece grey rayon liner. Stitched onto the crown is a transparent plastic rhomboid moisture guard, underneath which is visible a fully-intact maker’s mark reading “N. SCHEGA & NEFFE, GRAZ”. The cap measures approximately 240 mm (w) x 260 mm (l) x 145 mm (h). Issues consistent with age and use are evident, and include some material fatigue to the wool and wire features, as well as fatigue and desiccation of the leather elements. This unique cap is in an overall better than very fine condition.