Im sure this is an original c1930 miners cap but i was just wondering if it has any third reich connections as i have found this TR medal and seems to have the same miners emblem!!!
Thanks alot guys
Im sure this is an original c1930 miners cap but i was just wondering if it has any third reich connections as i have found this TR medal and seems to have the same miners emblem!!!
Thanks alot guys
This is not my area of expertise, so I cannot comment with any authority on the item's age and value but I have to point out that this type of hat - known as a "Schachthut", i.e. "shaft hat" - was and still is a part of the German miners' traditional dress. (The hats have differences in their furnishings depending on the region and the wearer's "rank")
Please see here for a 2010 picture gallery showing many such hats in wear:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1162169...September2010#
...this pattern is especially similiar:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1162169...15322139837602
The crossed hammer-and-pick symbol, too, has absolutely nothing to do with the Third Reich period as it is a traditional miners' symbol and as such has been used long before, during and long after the Nazi reign; again, it is still used today.
(Just have a look at the present-day version of the Grubenwehr-Ehrenzeichen: Das Grubenwehr-Ehrenzeichen | Ordensmuseum.de )
Thus, why are you so sure that the hat is from the 1930s?
Last edited by HPL2008; 10-08-2011 at 04:29 PM.
To me it looks typically post war , the grey leatherette sweatband is of a Bundeswehr type design and the sweat shield appears plastic
Post war manufacture for sure.
Agreed. It is a post-war Bergbau lid. As HPL states, these existed from 1900 to the present, and it is really tought to tell the pre-war & wartime ones from the immediate postwar ones. (This one being an exception).
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
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