Headwear Interesting Bavarian feldgrau Landwehr cap

[dante]

Here is an interesting cap, silk lining with Bavarian landwehr cockade, I have a memorial card with a similar cap...thoughts???

Edited February 16, 2014 by dante

[Chip]

It looks to be a visored Einheitsmütze, in the style of the M1908 issue Schirmmütze. It appears to be a private purchase piece, considering the silk lining. So, it could be imperial or the Reichswehr army version. Nothing about it says Landwehr, besides the cockade, which may or may not be original to the cap. The Sterbebild shows a M1908 cap.

Chip

[dante]

Cheers Chip, do you not think it is more like the 1908 dienstmutze mit schirm ?

[Chip]

Basically, that is what it is, only now called the "Einheits-Dienstmütze mit Schirm" introduced in 1917.

Chip

[dante]

Cheers Chip

[Chris Boonzaier]

A very nice bit of headgear... would go perfectly with the Bavarian Bluse I do not yet have.... :-)

[dante]

Few years ago I sold this Bavarian Bluse

[Chris Boonzaier]

Wow... other than a bavarian Jäger, that would have been a regiment on the top of my list!!

[Chip]

Hello Dante,

Do you have any close-up photos of the straps on the Bavarian Bluse? From a distance, they look like they could be from the Leib Gren.Rgt.109. The straps from the b.Inf.Leib Regt. had very small crowns and of a particular pattern.

Chip

[dante]

Sadly chip the bluse is long gone, but marked/stamped to the Bayern Leib, so wish I still had it......

[Chip]

Yes, that is too bad. I'm sure you are kicking yourself now. We all wish there were items we could have back. It's just part of collecting.

Chip