Reichsbahn General's Visor

**BOB COLEMAN** · 09-01-2009, 04:06 PM

A great addition to you collection. A cap that is seldom seen. Thanks for posting it.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 09-01-2009 04:06 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Anders S** · 09-01-2009, 08:48 PM

Even I, who only collect W-SS, am enjoying to see this rare cap. Congrats.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 09-02-2009, 05:27 AM

Thanks for the photo essay and the examination of this interesting and seldom seen piece of head dress.

Viel Sammlerglueck.

**stonemint** · 09-06-2009, 06:28 AM

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys. I like to "show", but I like to "tell" even more....

**HJ-Collector** · 09-06-2009, 11:24 AM

very nice visor that love the insignia on the front nice one

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 09-06-2009, 04:51 PM

by stonemint

Thanks for all the kind comments, guys. I like to "show", but I like to "tell" even more....

The aim is to learn more of substance about this regalia in contrast to the illiterate stuff that goes on elsewhere. Your cap and your essay add to the store of our knowledge, which otherwise has stopped growing on other websites, save the Axis History one.

Thanks again. There is a good biography in German of the man who was the Transportation minister, the citation of which I shall furnish elsewhere. The German railways are a special love of mine, in fact.

Viel Sammlerglueck

**carlsson1982** · 09-07-2009, 01:19 PM

I have a Reichsbahn cap eagle but with it's head looking to the left, was there somewhere changes about that?

**carlsson1982** · 09-07-2009, 01:26 PM

and this eagle is also a Reichsbahn-cap eagle, isn't it?

**eurocentric** · 09-07-2009, 06:29 PM

Your cap eagle is for "Bahnschutz". Nice one! I love the shape of the wings

**stonemint** · 09-08-2009, 03:51 AM

by carlsson1982

I have a Reichsbahn cap eagle but with it's head looking to the left, was there somewhere changes about that?

What you probably have is an M-36 or M-37 Political eagle on your visor, or an early KM. Technically, the civil state eagle looks to its right, and the eagles of the armed forces look to the left.

I am rusty on my Heraldry, but if I recall right, whent the eagle looks east, it is the more warlike view, but when it looks to the right (west), it is associated more with peace. (However, notice how the party eagles all look to their left.)

Perhaps someone with more info than I on this topic can elaborate.

BTW, do you have a pic of your DRB hat?