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WAFFEN-SS EM/NCO PANZER VISOR CAP

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Issued, field-grey wool/gabardine blend construction, wonderfully shaped visor cap features a wide, black wool centerband and pink wool piping to the top of the crown edge and both the top and bottom edges of the centerband.

Cap has a very a nice, relaxed, saddle form shape with overlapping side panels.

The front center of the cap has a zinc SS eagle and a zinc Totenkopf.

The cap has a glossy, blackened, patent leather, chinstrap with two, black painted, sliding, vertically rectangular, sheet metal, length adjustment buckles and a central, vertically rectangular, sheet metal, joining clip. The chinstrap is secured to the cap by two, small, black painted, smooth finish, magnetic sheet metal buttons.

The cap has a extended, forward, black lacquered, vulcanfibre visor with a subtly raised lip near the forward edge and an grey bottom with a repeating cross-hatched pattern.

The interior of the cap is fully lined with a champagne coloured rayon lining. Celluloid sweat diamond is still i place, under it is well visible the maker's logo and name: Deutsches Erzeugins.

Cap is roughly a size 56. Cap has some mothing and a couple of tears to the cardboard sweatband.

A worn and used example of one of the most rare Waffen-SS Visor Caps. SS Visors with colored piping are indeed extremely rare to find, they were produced for some months only during the war.

An incredible piece of history.