Germany, Heer. A General Staff Officer’s Visor Cap certificate_of_authenticity The obverse ricasso bears an

The obverse ricasso bears an etched maker's mark of "ЗИК" framed by a triangle (Златоустовский Инструментальный Комбинат = Zlatoust Tool Factory) above the manufacturing date "1954"

Appointed assistant adjutant-general at the War Office in 1871

with a miniature Iron Cross 1914 and a War Merit Cross First Class with Swords

multi rayed

uppers in a fine silver-coloured bullion wire

Germany, Heer. A General Staff Officer’s Visor Cap certificate_of_authenticity The obverse ricasso bears an(Heer Schirmmtze fr Offiziere der Generalstabs). A well preserved Heer General Staff Officers visor cap, constructed of field grey wool with a pronounced whipcord weave. It features reinforced side walls which are lined on the exterior with a smooth dark green wool cap band. Both the top and bottom edges of the band are trimmed with carmine piping, while an additional length of identical piping trips the outer edge of the crown. Pinned onto the peak