BACKGROUND: As with most nations, the German national postal service was a uniformed organization, whose uniform regulations were altered shortly after the NSDAP achieved political power in January of 1933.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A dark navy blue wool construction visor cap, featuring a one-piece circular crown, piped in orange and whose internal stiffening wire is still intact, a body with seams to each of its cardinal points, a one-piece center band, also piped in orange along its edges and whose vertical seam is to the reverse, and a blackened visor. Fixed to the forward seam line of the body is a stamped aluminum, political-style national eagle, whose out-stretched wings have a 2 3/16" span, and which clutches a wreathed, mobile swastika in its talons. It would appear that it originally had a silver wash, only traces of which remain. An internal, vertical shape retainer is behind this forward seam line, giving the cap a high peak to the front. Blackened metal ventilation grommets are to either side of the body’s side seams. Fixed to the front of the black velvet center band is a 1 1/4" diameter, silver-washed, stamped alloy oak leaf wreath, encircling the black painted, fluted base to a raised, polished aluminum roundel, to whose center is a red felt "dot." The silver wash to the wreath appears to be fully retained. Fixed by a convex metal button over each ear is a blackened, patent leather chin strap, wrapped and riveted around rectangular alloy "rings," through which then loop the main body of the strap, with two metal sliding adjustment buckles along its length. All of its metal and alloy components are also blackened. The vulcanfibre visor, with a raised lip along its forward edge, is blackened to its upper surface, and tan colored to its underside. The interior of the cap is fully lined in tan-colored oilcloth, and features a 1 1/2" wide, tan alkor sweatband. A 1 1/8" x 9 3/4" section of cork is fixed under the sweatband to the front of the cap, where the forehead would rest. Decoratively-arranged perforations are to the sweatband over this section of cork. Stamped, in silver, to a celluloid diamond sewn to the interior crown is "Preisgekrönte Peküro Mütze Stirndruckfrei Deutsches Reichs-Patent Lieferant Peter Küpper Ronsdorf" (Price-crowned Peküro Cap Forehead-pressure-free German National-Patent Contractor Peter Küpper [of] Ronsdorf). Both the lining and sweatband are only very lightly age and usage soiled. The wool to the exterior is remarkable well preserved, with only light age soiling. The cap is roughly a size 55 (6 3/4).

GRADE ****                             PRICE $298.00