Luftwaffe Officers Visor Cap Insignia Set, Vented
Price: Sold
DESCRIPTION: Nice quality set consisting of a padded, hand embroidered winged visor cap Wreath & Cockande and matching Eagle; The hand embroidered, silver/aluminum wire construction, winged, open topped, wreath features four horizontally extended “wings” emanating from the central oak-leaf wreath that encompasses the national tri-color cockade. The cockade features a hand embroidered circular black wire base, a silver/aluminum wire roundel and a red SCREENED centerpiece (as used on all Erel Visors and some others) The winged wreath and cockade are mounted on a cut-out black wool base. The Cap eagle is superb with tight silver bullion wire throughout showing no use! Hard to find set.
BACKGROUND: On its inception in February 1935, the Luftwaffe adopted most of the uniform items of the earlier DLV, Deutscher Luftsport Verband, (German Air Sports League), its clandestine, civilian forerunner, including the visor cap. In March 1935 the earlier, “Tellerform”, saucer shaped caps were replaced with a new, “Sattelform” cap with a higher front peak and an oval shaped top. Along with the introduction of the “Sattelform” cap a new winged wreath and national tri-color cockade were also introduced and were utilized until the end of the war. Officer’s ranks generally utilized hand embroidered visor cap insignia as opposed to the stamped metal visor cap insignia as utilized by EM/NCO ranks. Company and Field grade Officers caps were distinguished from the EM/NCO’s caps by bright silver/aluminum piping and a silver/aluminum chin cord while General Officer’s ranks utilized gold colored visor cap fittings.
