GERMAN WWII LUFTWAFFE PARATROOPER AND HERMAN GORING MARKED VISOR CAP.

A very rare Luftwaffe yellow piped NCO/mans visor cap that is marked to the interior of the leather sweatband ’14.KOMP REGIMENT GEN (General) GORING’, then further marked on the other side of the cap also inside the light tan leather sweatband ‘1./FALLASCH.JAGER RGT 1 4.KOMP’.Regiment General Goring was created when it was transferred from the Landespolizeigruppe General Goring on the 1st October 1935 and further volunteers from that regiment formed a Fallschirmschutzen Battalion who were the cadre for the future German Luftwaffe paratroopers. As of September 1938 the 7th Flieger Division was formed and consequently the 1st Fallschirmjager Regiment of which the wearer of this cap was a member of. The cap originally issued as a tellerform cap, which was the standard shape for issue caps of that period, has been hand crafted and hand modelled by the wearer into a semi saddle shape style by removing the inner crown wire frame which then creates a drop down sides, with the peak being re-formed into the crushable style. It has its original early droop tailed eagle, its original matching cockade, which has lost its pins and is at present sewn to the cap. There is minor moth damage to the upper section of the yellow waffenfarbe of the mohair centre band otherwise one moth nip to the crown just behind where the new saddle shape form has extended. The leather chinstrap was removed many years ago and the cap is slightly flattened on the reverse side. This has laid within a house in the United Kingdom for close on 80 years and came from the home of a German prisoner of war who settled in Britain, it is well known that many German paratroopers settled in Britain after the end of WWII. The size is clearly stamped to the early russet brown crown lining of size ‘55½’ , also faint traces of the original maker or retailer, there are two tears to the leather sweatband, the inner card strengthener to the mohair centre band is cracked in many places, nevertheless an extremely atmospheric cap with fantastic history. at some time in its life, probably whilst being reshaped by the wear the pins holding the lower cockade to the cap have broken and the owner has pierced two tiny holes through the cockade and sewn the cockade to the cap, the threads on the right hand side of the cockade are at present broken and the cockade at present is located in its correct position by a small piece of Blue Tack, one small tacked thread would rectify this so that the cockade sits correctly to the Mohair band. A super piece of German paratrooper history.

Code: 91592