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A Third Reich period time privately purchased black field cap made by "ALMI". Maker marked a a paper tag covered by a celluloid triangle. "Hermes" named. Orange color linin with a water-resistant finish to the top. Clearly worn sweat-band.
Typical "M43" style with a silver officer's cord. Aluminum buttons.
The shape of a removed skull and two holes for its prongs can clearly be seen. Hard to make out via the pictures.
The cap was worn by a Panzer Waffen-SS officer. The daughter of the original finder of the cap, confirmed in a statement dated July 1982, that her father has found in the cap in a barn where German soldiers stayed overnight. It was hanging on a nail inside the barn. The barn was in Rue du General Giraud in Barentin (Normandy, near Rouen). The letter will be shipped with the cap.
