Original Item: Only One available. This is an excellent example of a Enlisted man’s Private Purchase Flak Artillery Luftwaffe NCO/EM Visor Cap. The interior is still clearly marked on the grey leather sweatband the maker’s information:

Rehfus
Velour
Reines Hasenhaar

This is a wonderful honest used example of a private purchase quality cap with a fantastic shape. This EM/NCO Schirmmütze (Visor Cap) is an original high quality manufactured cap. It is fabricated in Luftwaffe grey blue wool brushed melton wool, with wide black wool cap band, plus three rows of deep red (tiefrot) color piping around the circumference. This is the Luftwaffe Waffenfarbe (corps color) for Anti-aircraft troops and other Artillery.

The peaked visor cap retains a very nice aluminum pin Luftwaffe droop-tail eagle with swas (hook cross), as well as centrally mounted aluminum oak leaves with tri-color cockade. The black patent leather chin strap and buttons are still present and in very good condition. The visor is the classic black color with stitched edge trim, made of pressed vulcanfibre.

The body with its dark piping is in very good condition, aside from a few moth nips. The interior linking is blue-grey rayon. The original moisture shield is unfortunately missing. The sweatband looks to be made of thin textured gray blue pressed leather, which shows evidence of being resewn back into the cap.

This is a great Luftwaffe Flak Artillery EM/NCO peaked visor crusher cap, offered in very good used condition. Ready to display!

The German Schirmmütze Visor Cap:
The visor cap (Schirmmütze) was an important part of the headgear worn by German uniformed military, civil, paramilitary and political organizations during the Third Reich. This was the standard cloth headgear worn as a part of the service uniform. Visor caps were worn outdoors as well as indoors, and were often required to be worn by all personnel on duty. Visor caps were made in versions specific to each organization and were often further differentiated through the use of insignia, colored piping, or style of chin cord, to indicate rank, role or branch. The insignia used on these caps ranged from simple stamped metal emblems, to elaborate hand embroidery. Visor caps were issued to enlisted soldiers and NCOs in the military and in some other organizations. Officers had to purchase their own hats, and lower ranks could choose to purchase caps that were of a higher quality than the rather basic, issue examples. The private purchase caps were generally made in very high quality, with fine materials. A wide variety of fabrics were used, from Trikot and doeskin, to heavy wool, or even lightweight white fabric for summer wear. In the military, issue of these caps was generally suspended shortly after the outbreak of the war, but they continued to be worn by some troops until the end of the war.