Allgemeine SS EM Visor

German WWII > Headgear > Visors > SS Visors

Here's a nice example purchased by my picker from a Vet. source. Nice quality, issued, black wool construction visor cap with a whipcord weave a black, whipcord weave centerband and white wool waffenfarbe piping with minor mothing to the top crown edge and both the top and bottom edges of the centerband. The cap has a blackened, leather, chinstrap with two, black painted, sliding, rectangular, sheet metal, length adjustment buckles and a central, rectangular, sheet metal, joining clip. The chinstrap is secured to the cap by two, small, black painted, smooth finish, sheet metal buttons. The front center of the centerband has a second pattern, silver washed, stamped alloy skull under a matching SS visor eagle. The cap has a forward, extended, black lacquered, 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 orangish/tan oil cloth to the crown and orangish/tan cheesecloth to the body. The center has a celluloid sweat diamond with the size and SS runes. The interior of the cap also has a wide, tan leather sweatband with ventilation perforations and an underlying orange foam rubber pad to the front forehead section. There are some minor tears to the sweat band, The SS RZM tag is intact. Original price tag is present. Cap is size marked 54.