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I have somewhere an example of the maker's mark stamped on the reverse of the sweat band, but I cannot find it.

The NSDAP and its branches had the RZM to regulate the regalia of the party and its parts, and after 1935 or so, the only maker's mark was a license number, since trade marks were prohibited. I.e....

and "54" is indeed 54 cms. The maker's name on army caps tends to be on the inside of the sweat band in those made until 1939, which is most of the ones I know....

In my early days of this in the late 1960s and early 1970s, such issue caps in unused condition and in all branches were had for USD 25 or less. They were hardly rare at all in said epoch....