Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Enlisted Personnel Tropical Visored Field Cap, French-Made

(Kriegsmarine Einheitsfeldmütze für Mannschaften). A well-preserved Kriegsmarine Enlisted personnel tropical visored field cap, constructed of khaki-tan cotton. The cap is fully surrounded by stylized side panels, fixed in place with careful machine stitching along the top edge. The crown is flanked on each side by dual eyelets, all reinforced with non-magnetic metal grommets. Stitched onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a light brown rayon backer bearing a machine-embroidered golden-brown Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika. The eagle insignia measures 65 mm (w) x 25 mm (h). Directly below the eagle, the cap also retains a machine-embroidered tri-colour cockade on a khaki-tan cotton backer, measuring 38 mm (w) x 38 mm (h). Completing the exterior features is a protruding visor with a card stock core, fully lined in identical cotton. The interior is encompassed by a multi-piece khaki-tan rayon liner, with the left side retaining a partially-legible maker’s mark for Société Chapelière Parisienne, a noted French manufacturer of Kriegsmarine headgear, flanked by a size of “60”. The cap measures approximately 19 cm (w) x 26 cm (l) x 14 cm (h). It demonstrates light soiling and material fatigue consistent with wartime wear, and is a superb example of a French-manufactured cap in near extremely fine condition.