Waffen SS M40 Feldmutze

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Guys, this is another favourite item from my collection. Once again just how I like to see an item, used and worn from wear in the field.

The white soutach is for Infantry.

Some points to note when looking for an original. Note the heavy "piped" seams to the top of the cap and the slightly "puffy" appearance to the insignia due to the way they are applied to the cap

Ink markings to the interior have washed away. The size of the cap is small, about a 55 or 56.

Cheers, Ade.

[RaymondG]

Another great item, Ade :thumbup:

[JMB]

un-questionably real :thumbup: Nice one!

[Bob Wirtz]

Here are two overseas caps that I know of, one being an officer with the white soutache and the other being enlisted artillery. The latter is stenciled with a 1940 date.

Bob

[stefanob]

Nice caps!
Side caps are very amazing...:biggrin:!
Here just my humble contribution.
Best.

Stefano

[Rob Johnson]

Holy...!!! This thread has me drooling over here :w00t:
Excelent examples guys!

Ade, yours is just... beautiful :001_tt1:


Rob

[Bob Wirtz]

Here's another group of overseas caps if you like those:

(1) Waffen-SS enlisted overseas cap. The strings are holding museum property tags from the Red Army Museum in Moscow and the Red Army Artillery Museum in St. Petersburg. George Petersen originally got this out of Russia in the early 1990s and this one was sold to Mike Beaver, who later on sold it to Willi Schumacher.

(2) SS Officer's Overseas Cap with the white piping. The eagle is an aluminum wire machine-woven and the skull is a hand-embroidered silver bullion Totenkopf collar tab that has been cut out. The cap is named to a doctor in the Race and Resettlement Main Office (RuSHA).

(3) Waffen-SS enlisted overseas cap with officer aluminum piping added.

(4) Waffen-SS enlisted tropical overseas cap with autumn camouflaged insignia. This was found in a clothing depot in Linz, Austria and the clothing contractor (Schmid & Menner) probably used slave labor provided by Mathausen KZ. In contrast to the camouflaged field caps, which have block cut insignia machine sewn on, this has been cut out and hand applied.

Willi Schumacher Collection/Bob Wirtz Photos