definition of " crusher " = able to be easily folded / screwed up and stuffed into pocket or other type of small compartment.
Ah, that's a good one because that brings me onto the materials that they were made from. I have owned several "crushers" with regular card pasteboards. If you were to try and crush them, you would break the pasteboards.
Case in point.
An eReL Alter Art cap. Lightweight, card pasteboard, "crusher" insignia and leather peak. This is no crusher though.
That being the case, perhaps the correct term should now be " IN THE SYTLE OF " but i would assume that the terminology has been used for so long it has become the norm
Regards,
Steve.
Then you have this one. Paul Kaps with a very manuable pasteboard that no one has identified so far. Again, this is no crusher.
Ben,
if you are after is what was actually designated during the period it was relatively straightforward.
A Service cap (Dienstmuetze), was worn by commissioned ranks on duty when a steel helmet was not specified. Also by non commissioned ranks in the vicinity of the barracks and for walking out.
A Field cap (Feldmuetze), was worn in the field and all activities related to the field by both officers and men. Most period orders only specify that a peaked field cap must have the chinstrap and stiffener removed. A leather peak was available on service caps so was not a prerequisite of a field cap.
A Feldmuetze alter art was so designated after a new pattern field cap had been introduced. For example, the peaked field cap for officers was so designated because the 1938 new boat shaped field cap had officially replaced it.
d'alquen
Not that these caps were made to be crushed at all,
but if anything other than 'Feldmutze alter art',
I very much like what Klinger used:
'Knautschmutze'.
BTW, Ben, these are beautiful examples............!
Regards,
Steve.
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