Someone sent me a link to this thinking it was DRK (however, piping is too white for DRK).
May just be RW infantry missing the proper wreath/cockade:
Someone sent me a link to this thinking it was DRK (however, piping is too white for DRK).
May just be RW infantry missing the proper wreath/cockade:
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Hi Stoney
I saw this on e bay and had a second glance as it does not follow the norm.
I don't think it is RW infantry because the cap band is too "grey" and the absence of stamps makes me suspicious. Also the sweat shield would date it after 1928 IMO meaning the cloth crown material would have been tricot instead for it to be regulation correct....also the chin strap is o/ranks but a police style so not correct.
Being a pureist I would say civil not military.
I reckon early red cross is a possibility but more likely a veteran's org or at a stretch a private purchase cap that never made the grade ?
cheers
Tony
Tony, tough call. Could be a civvie cap, but it does appear to have empty holes for a wreath. Nice looker that I would not mind having in my collection, whatever it is!
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
To me it looks Jungstahlhelm. The white piping indicates Block 1.
May be the holes for the cap band were later done by a collector, who
intended to make an army cap out of it. What I know - and I have seen
photographs - is that in the Stahlhelmorganization so now and then
a wreath was in use. Must have somehwere photographs. If I find them,
I will post them!
roger that Chris, it is a nice looking cap or sure.by stonemint
Being sold as a "Luftschiff" visor, which I highly doubt. If real, probably just some civilian flying club.
Biete alte Luftschifts Schirmmütze um 1920-30 .Absolutes Sammlerstück .Äusserst selten .Sehr schöner Zustand keine Mottenlöcher usw.Mit weißem seperaten überzug ( auf dem vierten Foto zu sehen ),darauf das Landshuter Wappen zu erkennen ( Besatzungs angehöriger wahr wohl aus Landshut ) .
Grösse Durchmesser 27cm
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
On Ebay right now--some sort of Freikorps Youth Organisation visor:
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Definitely a Weimar Negele logo. Maybe Tram?:
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Maker and construction are pre-1945. Could be Imperial Verein:
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Certainly no airship connection and almost certainly no aviation connection at all.
It's also worth noting that the badge is not the proper coat-of-arms of Landshut*, but a design which combines its symbols (three helmets) with the town's colors (red and white). (The shield should normally have a plain white background.)
I suspect a sports club or other strictly civilian connection.
In fact, there is a local tennis club, the Tennisclub Rot-Weiß Landshut e.V. [= "Tennis Club 'Red-White' Landshut, registered association] that has named itself for the town's colors and also uses a combination of the three helmets and said colors as its logo. (See here for the present-day design: Tennisclub Rot-Weiß Landshut e.V. 1899 - Aktuelles ) The club was founded in 1899, so it was in existence during the period in question.
I wouldn't be surprised if the cap is from this very club, sporting an earlier design of the logo...
*) It's my hometown, you know.
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