Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Ordnungspolizei Administrative Officer’s Visor Cap

(Schirmmütze für Offiziere der Verwaltung). A rare and extremely well-preserved Ordnungspolizei Administrative Officer’s visor cap, constructed of classic police-style cyan-green wool. The cap features reinforced side walls, with the exterior bearing a smooth dark brown wool cap band. Silver-grey piping fully surrounds the circumference of the crown, as well as the top and bottom edges of the cap band. Pinned onto the peak is a tri-colour cockade consisting of blackened and silvered non-ferrous metal around a red felt centrepiece, measuring 22 mm in total diameter. Underneath the cockade, the cap band is pinned with a silvered zink Ordnungspolizei insignia, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika. The eagle insignia measures 54 mm (w) x 45 mm (h). The cap is flanked on each set by pebbled magnetic metal buttons, in turn securing in place a decorative chinstrap constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping. The chinstrap rests upon a protruding vulcanfibre visor, presenting with a lacquered black finish on the obverse and in light brown on the reverse, set securely into the structure of the cap. The interior features a 40 mm-wide light brown leather sweatband, perforated at the forehead with ventilation holes and securely affixed to the cap with machine stitching. A complete beige rayon liner fully encompasses the interior, with a transparent plastic rhomboid moisture guard stitched onto the crown. A handwritten owner’s name appears on the crown, and the reverse of the sweatband reveals double stamps of “CCC”, indicating that the cap was used as an authentic postwar film prop by Central Cinema Compagnie-Film GmbH. It measures approximately 250 mm (w) x 255 mm (l) x 168 mm (h). Minor material fatigue is evident, along with some soiling of the interior liner, but this rare cap presents in an overall extremely fine condition.