Germany, Heer. An Infantry Officer’s Crusher Visor Cap

(Heer Schirmmütze). A very well-preserved Heer Infantry officer’s crusher-style visor cap, constructed of field-grey wool with a forest-green wool cap band. Bands of white piping surround both the crown of the cap, as well as the top and bottom of the cap band. Pinned into the peak is an insignia in the form of a silvered zink Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika. The eagle insignia measures 60 mm (w) x 28 mm (h) and retains two of its three reverse attachment prongs. Stitched into the cap band underneath the eagle is a wreath and cockade, the former constructed of hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire around a zink cockade. The insignia is set on a padded forest-green wool backer and measures 70 mm (w) x 48 mm (h). The cap is flanked on each side by a pebbled magnetic metal button securing a decorative chinstrap, itself constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire. The chinstrap wrests upon a protruding vulcanfibre visor, the obverse of which is painted black. The interior features a 45 mm-wide brown leather sweatband, and completes with a dark grey rayon liner. The cap is unmarked and measures approximately 215 mm (w) x 260 mm (l) x 165 mm (h). Soiling and material fatigue, partly due to mothing, is evident to the wool features, with age-appropriate material fatigue also evident to the sweatband.