Heer Visor

[Sensei]

Hello! A friend need some help with this cap. And visors aren't really my area at all so i figured we both could use some help from all of you!



Any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

[Kryton]

If its Dark Blue that's Medical . I cant enlarge any of the photos but it looks ok to me .However I would wait for an expert. Rob

[Migobeego]

I am not an expert I'm afraid, but from what I can see, it's one I would buy. Wait for further confirmation, though.

Regards,
MG.

[stonemint]

Nice WH Medical Officer by JC Kornacker….

[Sensei]

Thank you all!

[ErWeSa]

Hello Tobias,
a nice Kornacker indeed. Any chance of getting better pictures of the inside - how is the sweatband attached/sewn in? It seems unusual for a Kornacker.

[Sensei]

Hello Tobias,
a nice Kornacker indeed. Any chance of getting better pictures of the inside - how is the sweatband attached/sewn in? It seems unusual for a Kornacker.

Hey, i can see what i can do!

[Sensei]

Hey, this is all i got still, but i think you can atleast enlarge the pics now

[ErWeSa]

As I thought, there is something wrong with the sweatband - this is a sweatband that used to be sewn against a base which is no longer there (you can see the empty holes where the thread was sewn with a zig-zag stitch to it). I wonder how the swatband is attached to the centerband - if glued the cap was damaged by it. There were several methods to attach the sweatband:
simply by sewing it and bending it over:



sewing it to a base like velvet (most often done by Peküro):



or by sewing it to a kind of piping supported by a string of reed:



another version was to bend it around the visor/peak and sew it in straight at the back:

[ErWeSa]

Sweatbands are Kornacker's weak point - often they were made of Ersatzmaterial wich disintegrated, often the seams gave in so that there are many repaired versions out there. In the cap from the OP there seems to be the original sweatband made of leather (I noticed the imprint Marke Standard on it) the thread of which seems to have given in. If the black fabric it was stitched to is still there this could be repaired (quite a task using all the original holes for recreating the zig-zag stiching). Here are a few examples:

No 1: Zigzag stitch still there, Ersatz-sweatband:



No 2 as no 1:



No 3 with relatively intact Ersatz sweatband:



No 4 an example with a repaired (wrongly though) sweatband: