In post # 34 of this thread, there is an elevator/doorman visor with a red (vs Bordeaux-red) band (still unexplained).
I am just speculating, but maybe your hat is a wartime example with a variant red band (but who knows):
Visor for an Obscure Elite Luftwaffe Unit!
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Tony, I think this is the one you are referencing--it was sold on numerous auctions as being Generalstab (I never bought into that claim):by spandau
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Thanks.........That's exactly the one !
Erich K asked me about it a few years back and we just couldn't see how it could be Gen. Stab.
Some things just keep going round in circles...............
cheers
Tony
Great detective work. I'm on the road and will look at these in more detail when I'm not looking at a two inch cell phone screen!
Thanks to everyone. This was a great and enjoyible thread.
"Please", Thank You" and proper manners appreciated
My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
Comparison photos:
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Colors look different to me. Seems abit too much for just a variation in fabrics.
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
Found a photo with a cap suchlike, but without a wreath. I do own this photo for at least 25 years.
The owner of the cap told it to be early Heerespfarrer, but I have no idea if this was correct. I do
not have the time to check all of the regulations. Their color was described as violet, as far as I know!
Staff had carmine color......
My thoughts "whirl" for Technischer Gestützdienst, but I am not 100% as I cannot find the
description for the uniform. I know their piping was red. Neither can I find the photos from this,
but they did wear the wreath and eagle. My files are a "mess" these days, sorry!
Thanks Win! Appreciate the digging by you and everyone else.
Michael
"Please", Thank You" and proper manners appreciated
My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
OK guys. Some more pictures. Maybe these will help. Primarily they are just close up pictures of parts of the visor.
My friend says there are NO other holes in the pasteboard that he can see.
Any more thoughts would be great!
Michael
"Please", Thank You" and proper manners appreciated
My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
Could it be this? Sorry for the vague photo from a magazine
from April 1940!!
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