Tuchmuetze= cloth cap
Hersteller= maker's license number, i.e. code number
RZM # the number of the tag, for which a fee was charged for the use of the RZM, and the serial number was to allow
oversight of quality, retail, raw materials and on and on.
A1 27 Felix Weissbach Glachau in Sachsen.
A1= Ausruestung, Muetzenfabriken.
The six digit number is the serial number of the tag, the cap, etc.
Such a thing allowed those charged with quality control, and, presumably, the person who bought the cap and might find it
defective to gain accountability for its defects.
The clothing economy was a complicated thing in the Nazi economy, subject to price controls, labor shortages, and raw material
problems even before the start of the war.
The makers of such items were prohibited from using makers' logos.
If you look in the SS section, we have gone over this ground a thousand times.
The RZM was also an offensive weapon to disenfranchise Jews in the clothing trade in the years after 1933
and until Jews lost all their civil and property rights in Germany.
If you read the RZM circulars closely, this aspect is pretty plain, as is the case in the clothing industry trade publications.
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