Fabricated in Luftwaffe blue gray Fliegerblau (Flier's Blue) wool, with a wide black ribbed rayon cap band, traditional peak with matching golden yellow piping along the top edge and flanking the top side of the band. It is decorated with a well-detailed silvered aluminum Luftwaffe eagle insignia on the peak and an oak leaf wreath with stylized wings and cockade on the band, the latter in silvered aluminum with a red and black painted cockade. The interior has a makers diamond, indicating “Robert Lubstein, Berlin. Manufacturing date of 1939. A couple of moth nip just above the eagle and a couple more alone the rim. Overall near MINT.

A13202