Allgemeine SS Officers Overseas cap photos ...

[wewelsburgss]

Ive heard from several collectors that piping on an Allgemeine SS overseas cap is non regulation...any thoughts???

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The cap in question is not of the Allgemeine SS, but of the SS Totenkopfverbaende. Colleagues Hritz and d'Alquen have analyzed these images before.

I would only add this image, which is not of a cap, but a cuff, as it were.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Needless to say, I have never seen such a black overseas cap in real life, but maybe others have.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I did own a nice earth brown overseas cap in the early 1970s, which I stupidly sold for little money. I owned the earth brown cotton drill tunic, too. actually.....

[Friedrich-Berthold]

You will wander in circles if you heed what certain "collectors" generalize about SS uniforms, dear Mr. Wewelsburg....
plainly, the photos indicate that such alu or sliver or whatever piping was worn on the 1934 cap in the SSTV i.e. Sta. Oberbayern and who knows where else....