Wehrmacht field officers visor hat id...

[stonemint]

rynegold--

Yours probably is an Eastern Occupied Territories Postschutz visor--it is just that it seems to be a forest-green in color. Is the body as green as it appears? Are there any extra holes in the pasteboard?

[stonemint]

Here are some more shots of mine. We believe it was made in occupied Poland or Czech, due to some variations from typical German manufacture.

[stonemint]

Here you can see that in the East, they wore the dark green piping on the tabs in lieu of orange:

[stonemint]

Here you can see that 2 of the Postschutz men are Reich-proper, and the other 2 are from the Ost, by the light (orange) and dark (green) piping on their tabs:

[stonemint]

Lastly, Ribbentrop inspecting P/S men in the east wearing the dark-green piped hats:

[stonemint]

Lastly, the SS took over the Postschutz in 1942 and they then wore SS uniforms with a cuff-title which said "SS-Postschutz". That was the end of the wear of these visors, both in the Reich proper and in the East.

[rynegold]

Oh my gosh,... to my untrained eye, mine looks exactly like yours. Does yours have a "comfort" stamp impressed into th leather sweat band?? Like this one?

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[rynegold]

Thanks Cris! Have a look at the slideshow again as I've added some pix of the field visor. Does yours have the "comfort" stamp impressed into the leather sweatband?

I added a pic of it...

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[BenVK]

Regardless of whether it was a Postschutz hat from day one or a re-badged Forestry hat, it's still a very nice original example in decent condition.

[glowa1940]

Gentlemen, this is a cap for Beamten der Deutschen Dienstpost