{"id":19870,"date":"2026-07-28T17:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiquesarmsandarmor.com\/?p=19870"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:40:52","slug":"luftwaffe-officers-summer-visor-cap-original-box-attributed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiquesarmsandarmor.com\/index.php\/militaria\/headgear\/german-military\/luftwaffe-officers-summer-visor-cap-original-box-attributed\/","title":{"rendered":"Luftwaffe Officers Summer Visor cap, Original Box & Attributed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Description:\u00a0 <\/b>Luftwaffe Officers White-top Visor cap in its Original Box & Attributed. White waffle-pattern crown with spring-form in situ. Black, horizontally ribbed, interwoven, mohair centerband, with matching silver-gray piping top and bottom. The front center of the crown retains its original hand embroidered, 2nd\u00a0 pattern Luftwaffe eagle in bright silver\/aluminum wire threads with bright silver\/aluminum bullion accent threads on a cut-out white wool base. The front center of the centerband has a hand embroidered, winged, oak-leaf wreath in silver\/aluminum wire threads, encompassing a hand embroidered national tri-color cockade. The winged wreath and cockade are embroidered into a cut-out black wool base.. The cap has an interwoven, twisted, silver\/aluminum, braid, chin cord secured to the cap by two, small, silver washed, pebbled, alloy buttons. Typical Luftwaffe black lacquered, vulcan-fibre visor with green colored underside and edge stitched in black leatherette. The interior of the cap is un-lined with a sew-in composition-plastic frontal-peak reinforcement.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Background:<\/b> Family acquired in German from one middle-man. A very late war unworn-looking cap that still has some tissue paper stuffing. The box lid has a Frankfurt Train Station storage label dated February 1945. Comes with an original photo of a Luftwaffe Officer identified on the reverse as Hauptmann Siegfried Rothke; his date & place of birth and Luftwaffe record to 1943. He was w\/ 6.\/K.G.4 \u2018General Wever\u2019 and awarded the Ritterkreuz 6-43. This cap is stone mint.<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n