Bidspirit auction | NS-RKB Personnel's Visor Cap.

NS-RKB Personnel's Visor Cap. - NS-RKB Personnel's Visor Cap (Schirmmütze) The DRKB, ”Deutscher Reichskriegerbund” (German National-veterans’-league), was formed during WWI, and was based on the DKB, ”Deutscher Kriegerbund, ” originally formed after the Franco-Prussian war in the 1870s. By 1936 it had incorporated most of the varied veterans’ associations into it, and was itself re-named the NS-RKB, ”Nationalsozialistische - Reichskriegerbund, ” in 1938. Uniform and headgear regulations were introduced prior to 1933, were modified in 1936, and again in 1938. A 1936 pattern, deep navy blue wool construction visor cap. Fixed to the forward seam line of the body is a 1938 pattern, stamped aluminum, spread-winged eagle with a wreathed, mobile swastika in its talons, and crossed swords behind an Iron Cross to its breast. The Iron Cross is detailed in black enamel. Beneath this is a stamped aluminum, open-topped wreath of oak leaves, bound at its base and encompassing a cockade. The black rayon center band features machine embroidered mobile swastikas alternating with shields, within which are ” Kyffhäuser ” monuments (a monument to a united Germany located in Saxony). Cap has a black lacquered cardboard visor with simulated leather trim stitched to the forward edge. Fixed by the black-painted, convex metal buttons positioned over each ear is a twisted black chincord. The interior of the cap is fully lined in mid-blue rayon, and features a tan leather sweatband with the words ” MARKE STANDART ” embossed around. Sweatband with a handwritten signature of the owner. Ink stamped, in silver, to a celluloid diamond sewn to the interior crown is ” Deutscher , ” ” Reichskriegerbund , ” ” Kyffhäuser , ” and ”( ges. geschutzt )” (for ”gesetzlich geschützt, ” or, by-law protected). Size 57 , what is described on the manufacturer's information sheet. VERY IMPORTANT !!! Shipping from our office in Europe. Condition: As in the attached photos.