Kriegsmarine Officers Visor & Side Cap Set, Cased for Administrative Officer
Price: Sold
DESCRIPTION: Coming in their original wartime hard travel case, this set of both Admin Officers Visor & matching Side caps are mint showing little to now real use. Likewise the box itself only shows slight use and still has its functional lock; photos truly show it all -Set.
The Visor Cap is published in the Book: “German Headgear in WWII” by Moran & Maquire; pages 288-289.
BACKGROUND: Originally the Reichsmarine era visor caps were worn until a new slightly modified version was introduced in 1933.Originally Kriegsmarine personnel wore the Weimar Reichsmarine era oval, black, Weimar eagle “cockade” on a gold background encompassed by a gold oak-leaf wreath on their visor caps until March 14th 1933 when the Weimar era cockade was replaced with a circular black, white, and red cockade, followed by the new NSDAP style national eagle on March 24th 1934 and a new, more detailed, pattern wreath on April 2nd 1935. Kriegsmarine officer’s visor cap also differed from their counterparts in the army and Luftwaffe in that they did not utilize the twisted chincords to denote rank as they proved impractical for actual usage and the leather chinstraps were worn instead. As a result of the use of the leather chinstraps there was no way to determine Officer’s from NCO’s until regulations of May 13th 1936 introduced new identifying visor trim for officers ranks to distinguish them from the NCO’s. The new visor trim came in three different patterns with one pattern for Company Grade Officers, one for Field Grade Officers and the third for Flag Officers. Of Note: Kriegsmarine Administrative officials visor caps were distinguished from other Kriegsmarine personnel’s visor caps by the use of silver insignia and the twisted chincords. Officer rank Side caps were distinguished from EM/NCO’s by the addition of gilt piping around the forward edge of the flaps while administrative officials utilized silver piping and insignia.
