Fire Police Visor (Feller-Eckert)

[Jonathan Wenberg]

Thanks for the responses gents and a very interesting idea Stonemint. Vogele still seems to have an online presence even though their physical store appears closed: Startseite

Seems to be in the hands of Dieter Voegele - perhaps a son or grandson of Ludwig?

[ErWeSa]

He even seems to have a shop (one could call him on the phone):

https://adresse.dastelefonbuch.de/Ka...ücherstr.html

[Wilhelm Saris]

Feller-Eckert was most likely the distributor

I think he indeed was a distributor and did not manufcaturer headgear himselves.
This name is not listed with the nearly 2,000 names of headgear-manufacturers
I have listed in my files.

[Jonathan Wenberg]

Hello Wilhelm, thank you for your response. This may be a silly question, but when a visor cap is marked only with the distributor's name and not the maker, can it be assumed that the hat was made by a small enterprise or an individual hat maker (and not one of the larger companies?) By the way, what is your take on the cap's originality/date?
Thanks!

[ErWeSa]

Hello Wilhelm, thank you for your response. This may be a silly question, but when a visor cap is marked only with the distributor's name and not the maker, can it be assumed that the hat was made by a small enterprise or an individual hat maker (and not one of the larger companies?) By the way, what is your take on the cap's originality/date?
Thanks!

Although Wim is the expert, I would like to answer the first question: it were, on the contrary, mostly the big firms (Erel, Peküro, HPC, CW etc.) that sold caps to distributors; small ones wouldn't have had the capacity, they generally sold for themselves.