SA Field Cap (steel-green version)
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SKU: 51.GOR.01.02.001.000
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Constructed of beige-brown wool, with fold-down side and back panels with aggressively sloping downward scallops towards the front. The front of the cap features a single large silvered metal (magnetic) button in the centre, with an inverted green wool triangle on the left side of the cap. The triangle is machine-stitched to the cap using golden-yellow threading, and features an early political silvered aluminum eagle. Both sides of the cap feature brown enamelled rivets functioning as air vents. The interior of the cap is fully lined with a lightly faded green cotton/rayon blended fabric, and features a large RZM tag. The tag is labelled “Dienstmütze” (Service Cap), features a large stamp of the number “56”, with the manufacturer number “000” and the NSDAP RZM number “038145” with large, and easily legible black numbers.274 mm x 110 mm (folded); mint and near mint condition with only very slight discolouration visible around the rim of the interior lining from light use, but without other significant signs of wear.
The SA (Sturmabteilung, storm detachment) was established in 1921 as a paramilitary protection squad of the NSDAP. The members of the SA were tasked with protecting party leaders at political rallies and meetings from the paramilitary forces of the opposing political factions. The SA was first utilised on November 4, 1921 at a meeting held in Munich’s "Hofbräuhaus" beer hall. The organisation was banned after the failed putsch in 1923 and was reactivated in February 1925.
The Field Cap is also known as the Garrison Cap (Lagermütze) or Overseas Cap (Schiffchen).
Development for an SA field cap began in 1932, but it was only introduced officially in February 1934. It is brown, visorless, and foldable. The field cap was worn by all ranks, mainly during training exercises and marching.
The side flaps are closed by a single button at the front. However, the flaps, though loose, could not actually be turned down. For a short time, a small national eagle emblem was worn above the button, but in late 1934, this was replaced by an eagle emblem on a downward pointing triangle in the colour of the wearer’s region, to be worn on the left side of the cap. At first, the eagle emblem was made of metal, but as of 1937, it was made of silver-grey cloth, machine-woven onto the triangle.
Region colours are as follows:
Pink-red: Ostmark and Südmark
Crimson: Wachstandarte
Dark wine-red: Ostland and Westfalen
Red-brown: Österreich and Donau
Dark brown: Westmark and Niedersachsen
Orange-yellow: Mitte and Südwest
Yellow: Schlesien and Franken
Apple-green: Pommern and Thüringen
Emerald-green: Sachsen and Nordmark
Steel-green: Nordsee and Kurpfalz
Light blue: Hochland and Bayerische Ostmark
Blue-grey: Sudetenland and Weichsel
Cornflower blue: Warthe and Oberrhein
Navy blue: Hansa and Hessen
Black: Niederrhein and Berlin-Brandenburg
Grey: Generalgouvernment
Some caps can be found piped along the crown and flap edge in silver or gold for higher ranks, however, this was never officially permitted.
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