Dave raises some very valid concerns. Something is very fishy with the lining of this visor. I have never seen the black velvet insert on an Erel...only on Pek�ros or Pek�ros-licensed manufacturers...and on those, the application was far neater than on the subject cap. Here, the application is sloppy particularly in the forehead area and incomplete on the circumference..
The Offizier Kleiderkasse marking is puzzling; in fact I have a hard time coming up with a lame excuse why this would appear in any Luftwaffe visor...let alone an enlisted/nco visor, private-purchase or not.
But equally puzzling is why any postwar collector would attempt to slap a Frankenstein together from these parts for so little financial gain is beyond me.
Paul
