Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Upgraded Overseas Field Cap, Late-War Example, by Karl Heisler consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac registration marks

registration marks

and in preparation for Operation Barbarossa

light to moderate soiling on the ribbon from wear with removal of swastika

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Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Upgraded Overseas Field Cap, Late-War Example, by Karl Heisler consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac registration marks(Heer Schiffchen fr Offiziere). A well preserved Heer Officers overseas cap, constructed of field grey wool twill. The cap is fully surrounded by fold down side walls which slope downward toward the front. Stitched onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a dark green rayon backer bearing a machine embroidered silver aluminum wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, measuring 70 mm (w) x 30 mm (h) and, in the absence of piping,