Germany, Third Reich. A Storage Case for an Officer’s Privately-Purchased Visor Cap, Owner-Named Example visually-hidden The various badges and buttons

The various badges and buttons are held in position via a series of period sliders

A well-preserved Gendarmerie (Rural Police) EM/NCO’s shako

a red-enamelled Maltese cross with ball finials

at Moore Barracks Hospital at Bramshott

Germany, Third Reich. A Storage Case for an Officer’s Privately-Purchased Visor Cap, Owner-Named Example visually-hidden The various badges and buttons(Etui fr Schirmmtze). An extremely well preserved storage case issued alongside a Wehrmacht or SS Officers privately purchased visor cap, constructed of a hardshell frame with a faux black leather exterior liner, both the base and lid reinforced with layer of light brown leatherette affixed in place with multiple rows of hand stitching, with an integral leather strap emanating from the back of the side walls and extending across the lid (held in place