Original Item: Only One available. Beautiful early-war Erel made visor cap for a Heer Feldgendarmerie or Recruiting officer. This is a wonderful used condition early-war EREL Officer's Schirmmütze Visor Cap is fabricated in Army green gray wool, with wide dark green wool cap band, plus three rows of orange wool piping (a rare Waffenfarbe) around the circumference. The peak visor cap retains matching, early-quality, silver-aluminum hand-embroidered eagle with swas and oak leaves, along with an embroidered cockade, making this a very early cap as it does not use the classic EREL ventilated cockade!

The cap is lined with deep golden-yellow silk and shows a full-celluloid diamond bearing the silver-blocked Erel trademark (faded). The leather sweatband has a ventilated front edge, and embossed Erel maker-name to the side. Size of this cap is approximately 60cm (7 1/2).

This is a wonderful and rare, “Double Erel”, Heer Recruiting Officer peak visor cap offered for sale in very good condition with a beautiful saddle-form shape.