Opinions on Luftwaffe visor please

**badger51** · 07-14-2021, 07:11 PM

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thoughts on this visor appreciated

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 07-14-2021 07:11 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**TWS** · 07-14-2021, 07:30 PM

Appears original albeit missing sweatshield, chinstrap, and chinstrap buttons.

**ErWeSa** · 07-14-2021, 08:05 PM

I share TWS' opinion. Seems to be an early ErEl - any other pictures (preferably from the inside)?

**badger51** · 07-14-2021, 08:14 PM

thanks guys

**Bob Lyons** · 07-14-2021, 11:26 PM

Agree with the above comments, an early (1938) Robert Lubstein visor (ErEl).

Bob

**TWS** · 07-15-2021, 04:44 AM

Was pressed for time when I first commented. Here's my early LW Flak by eReL that shows what it would look like with the sweat shield and logo intact.

**ErWeSa** · 07-15-2021, 06:01 PM

Very nice piece!
Many of the early eReLs display handsewn sweatbands/visors. I suppose Lubstein outsourced production/completion of the caps to Heimarbeiter as I'm convinced he had the special sewing machines which allowed him to sew sweatband and visor in in one go.
Was the sweatband of your cap also handsewn in or just the visor/peak? In the only early eReL I own (from 1938) sweatband + visor were sewn in by hand (but with stiches that were more narrow to each other than in your cap).