German Army NCO/EM's Visored Field Cap M43
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SKU: 20.GOR.01.01.03.01.003.000
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Constructed of field-grey wool. The cap features fold-down side panels offering ear and neck protection which, when not in use, are held together by two pebbled, silvered zink buttons on the right flap meeting dual reinforced buttonholes on the left flap. Stitched onto the peak is a field-grey trapezoid rayon insignia bearing a grey BeVo-style Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika above a tri-colour cockade. The insignia measures 60 mm (w) x 42 mm (h). The exterior features are completed by a cardboard-reinforced protruding visor set securely into the structure. The interior is fully lined with dark grey rayon. The cap is unmarked and measures approximately 190 mm (w) x 250 mm (l) x 130 mm (h). Minor material fatigue is evident, but it is in an otherwise near extremely fine condition.
The Visored Field Cap M43 was introduced on June 11, 1943 and became the standard cap for all troops. It was also known as the Einheitsfeldmütze (standard field cap). The cut is the same as that of the “Bergmütze” (mountain cap), albeit with a longer visor, and it has the same design for flaps, which are affixed by two buttons at the front and could be lowered to cover the face in the form of a balaclava.
The cap was made of cotton and cellulose fibre, but in comparison to the earlier field cap model it was made of 70 to 90 percent cellulose fibre, making the material more coarse. On occasion this cap will have ventilations holes, just like the earlier models, but most were produced without any due to easier fabrication.
Enlisted men and NCOs wore no piping on their caps. Piping was silver-coloured for army and administrative officers, and gold-coloured for general ranks and administrative equivalents.
The buttons were grey for enlisted men and NCOs, made of pebbled aluminum for officers, and gilt for generals.
The embroidered insignia, the red, white, and black cockade in a wreath of oak leaves and the national eagle above it, usually came on a one-piece grey-green trapezium. It was made with silver-coloured wire for officer ranks.
The versions will significantly differ in weight depending on climate and local conditions.
The term M(odel) 43 has been given to this piece of headgear by collectors and has no official character.
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