Original German NSDAP (NAZI PARTY) Allgemeine SS Visor Cap, Well Marked Example Certified By The Gettysburg Museum Of History

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Original German NSDAP (NAZI PARTY) Allgemeine SS Visor Cap, Well Marked  Example Certified By The Gettysburg Museum Of History. Nice quality, black wool construction visor cap with a whip cord weave. The centerband is also constructed in the same black wool whip cord weave with the weave ribbing running in a different direction. The cap has white wool waffenfarbe to the top crown edge and both the top and bottom edges of the centerband. The internal crown stiffening wire is and an additional vertical stiffener to the front center are both still intact and give the cap a nice saddle form shape with a high central peak. The front center of the cap has a second pattern, silver washed, stamped alloy SS eagle, as introduced in February 1936. The front center of the centerband has a second pattern, silver washed, stamped alloy Totenkopf, as introduced in October 1934 . in excellent condition. The eagle is a late war zinc example with the original pins / prongs, however they were repaired. The skull is a very desirable second pattern Deschler TK with all of the silver wash now gone.. The interior presumably had the owners name and S S number inscribed which is now blacked out. (see photo). The cap has a blackened patent leather chinstrap with two, rectangular, sliding, sheet metal, length adjustment buckles and a central sheet metal retaining clip all intact. The chinstrap is secured to the cap by two small, smooth, black painted, sheet metal buttons. The cap has a black vulcanfibre visor with a raised lip near the forward edge. The diamond patterned, orangish/tan bottom edge of the visor is well marked with black inkstamped SS runes encompassed by the initials, “RZM”. The interior of the cap is fully lined with a high quality rayon. The crown lining still has its original clear celluloid sweat diamond intact with the small rectangular “pocket” portion. The crown lining beneath the sweat diamond is well marked with the gilt printed, circular bordered, outline of the SS runes encompassed by a second circular border. The interior of the cap also has a tan leather sweatband fully intact and in excellent condition. . A size 55 and 1/2  a Superb cap! Good but used example with very minor storage and use wear, no moth damage! 100% guaranteed to be authentic with Museum COA (Certificate Of Authenticity). This cap is one of the most superb and desirable artifacts from the Third Reich. We only get the opportunity offer these very rarely. DO NOT MISS THIS! NICE  EXAMPLE!