Germany, Heer. A Supply Troops Officer’s Visor Cap, by Robert Lubstein

(Heer Schirmmütze für Offizier der Nachschubtruppe). A very well-preserved Heer Supply Troops Officer’s visor cap, constructed of field-grey wool. It features reinforced side walls, fully lined on the exterior with a smooth black wool doeskin cap band. Both the top and bottom edges are trimmed with light blue piping, while an additional band of identical piping surrounds the outer edge of the crown. The former’s interior wire reinforcement has been removed, giving the cap a classic saddle-form appearance. Pinned onto the peak is an aluminum insignia consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika. Measuring 65 mm (w) x 28 mm (h), the insignia retains two of its three reverse attachment prongs. Directly beneath the eagle, the centre of the cap badge features an insignia consisting of a padded dark green wool backer with a central aluminum cockade set within an silver aluminum wire oak leaf wreath. It measures 64 mm (w) x 40 mm (h) overall. The cap band is flanked by pebbled magnetic metal buttons securing in place a chinstrap constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire, adjusted with dual functional sliding knots of identical construction. Completing the exterior features is a protruding vulcanfibre visor, fully finished in black. A blad leather sweatband surrounds the interior, which is also encompassed by a multi-piece beige rayon liner. The crown retains an intact transparent plastic moisture guard bearing the “eReL” maker’s mark of the firm of Robert Lubstein, Berlin. Measuring approximately 22.5 cm (w) x 28 cm (l) x 15.5 cm (h), the cap demonstrates minor issues consistent with age and wear, including slight fatigue to the wire surrounding the cockade and the wool along the rim. The cap remains in an overall extremely fine condition.