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K014056 EM/NCO'S "SCHULSCHIFF GNEISENAU" DONALD DUCK CAP.
BACKGROUND:
German Naval uniforms and headgear were based on traditional designs that date back to the creation of the Prussian Navy in 1848. The Kaiserliche Marine Mannschaftsmütze went through only very small changes and remained virtually unaltered right up until the end of the Third Reich period. As was common practice ships were quite often named after earlier German heroes and the Training ship Gneisenau was named in honor of the Imperial Prussian Field Marshall Count August Wilhelm Anton Graf Neithardt von Gneisenau, (1760-1831), who had assisted in reorganizing the Imperial Prussian army, along with General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, (1755-1813), in the early 1800's restoring morale and resulting in the defeat of Napoleon I at Leipzig in 1813. The SMS Gneisenau was a three-masted, fully-rigged sail ship, equipped with a steam engine, that was launched September 4, 1879 and commissioned in 1880. The ship was used to train officers and after a failure of its engine during a storm, on December 16, 1900, it sank near the harbor of Málaga, Spain.PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Nice quality, deep navy blue doeskin wool construction "Donald Duck" style sailor’s cap features a non-removable, one piece, circular crown and two piece side panels with machine stitched vertical seams to each side. One side panel is padded to give it a bit of stiffness and sewn to it is a black machine embroidered cap badge with a 5/16" ribbed tape border, about 7" long by 1 1/8" wide, that has a slight chevron shape, with the text in white "Schulschiff Gneisenau". Between the two words are crossed flags one is black with a white double lined cross with a green band between the horizontal lines and a white diamond to the center with a black hourglass shape inside, the other flag is red with a white horizontal center line and a white six pointed star to the center. The cap has a black silk cap talley and is stitched to the cap at the reverse center. The cap talley has long, extended, "tails" with diagonally cut ends. The interior of the cap is fully lined with a black woven cotton to the crown and body. The interior of the cap also has a tan leather sweatband which has dried out and is broken and split in multiple places. The cap is in overall very good condition for its age with light to moderate nap wear, a small pull at the front edge of the crown and a tear and some weave separation to the liner.
GRADE***1/2 PRICE $240.00
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