Black SS, Armed SS, SS VT

Original decal for steel helmet, manufacturer marking “Älteste Berliner Abziehbilder - Druckerei Methner & Bürger Berlin 0 17”, unused. Creased, condition 2-.

Original decal for steel helmet, manufacturer marking “Älteste Berliner Abziehbilder - Druckerei Methner & Bürger Berlin 0 17”, unused. Creased, condition 2-.

Shell partially retaining original paint, with SS rune shield on side. Interior with damaged liner band. Ground-recovered relic, condition 4.

Early private purchase piece, circa 1936. High elegant saddle form, fabric of black gabardine, white piping. The cap eagle and death's head in silvered finish. Black leather chin strap in the special form for the SS. Interior with light-colored sweatband leather. Reddish-brown oilcloth lining, the celluloid diamond is missing as with so many caps, with gold-printed SS runes as well as the woven SS/RZM cloth label “Vom Reichsführer SS befohlene Ausführung” (Execution ordered by the Reichsführer SS). Under the sweatband with the large white SS/RZM cloth label “SS dienstmütze, Hersteller 85...” (SS service cap, Manufacturer 85...). The visor interior stamped “SS RZM”. The visor cap is worn, in good untouched original condition. One of the very few originals!

Manufactured during the Kampfzeit era, circa 1930. Tall elegant visor cap, black cloth, without ventilation holes on the sides. Complete with the traditional cap eagle 1st Model and death's head in nickel-plated finish, black button in the center, black leather chinstrap in the special pattern for the SS. Interior with brown sweatband leather, maker mark “Rivat” blind-stamped on the side, dark cloth lining, size approximately 55/56. Clearly worn piece, with moth damage around the edge of the sweatband and on the underside of the visor, condition 2-3.
Very rare, one of the very few original pieces from the Kampfzeit era.

Very fine collector's piece, circa 1936. High elegant saddle form, black cloth of finest quality, the cap band of black velvet with silver piping. Silver cap cords with silver-plated buttons. The cap eagle in the Wehrmacht pattern and Death's Head 2nd Model in silver-plated officer's version. Black visor of vulcanized fiber. Interior with light sweatband leather, light silk lining, beneath the damaged celluloid diamond with gold-printed SS runes above the woven SS/RZM cloth label “Vom Reichsführer SS befohlene Ausführung” (execution ordered by the Reichsführer SS), the celluloid is damaged in the lower part. Under the leather sweatband with the large white printed cloth label “SS Dienstmütze, Manufacturer 143, Member number of wearer: SS-Nr. 5328 (handwritten)”, size approximately 59. The visor cap is worn, interior lining with corresponding wear and sweat marks. The visor cap is absolutely untouched, all insignia still originally mounted, overall in very fine condition!
Extremely rare, one of the very few originals. With the Wehrmacht eagle instead of the SS eagle, an interesting variant.

Walter Obermann, born June 12, 1910, SS membership number 5328, NSDAP party membership number 416095, bearer of the SS Death's Head Ring and member of SS-Lebensborn, promotion to SS-Untersturmführer on March 10, 1935. Member of SS-Stammabteilung 2, stationed in Stettin, SS-Oberabschnitt 2 Ostsee. Accompanied by photocopy from the SS seniority list of 1938.

circa 1943. Wine-red felt, complete with Bevo-woven insignia, machine-stitched, with black tassels. Interior with black sweatband, on the underside of the sweatband a label “57”. Condition 2.

This is a manufacture dating from circa 1943. Made of field-gray wool cloth, complete with Bevo-woven trapezoid insignia on field-gray background, machine-sewn, with 2 metal buttons at front. Interior with gray lining and handwritten owner's name “Heiche”, size approximately 54. Clearly worn, condition 2-.

This is a piece manufactured circa 1943. Black cloth, complete with all insignia. Complete with Bevo woven trapezoid insignia, two buttons on front. Interior with black lining, size marking 57. Condition 2.

This is a typical production from circa 1942. High elegant saddle form, fabric in field-gray gabardine, complete with metal cockade and Police visor cap eagle in aluminum, aluminum cap cord. Black velvet band, branch color white. Interior with stone-gray sweatband leather, side marked with “blind” embossed manufacturer designation “Extra”, rear with small silk bow. Stone-gray silk lining with damaged celluloid diamond, without manufacturer marking. Size approximately 55. Barely worn, with slight moth damage on top of the crown. One of the few originals in untouched original condition, very rare.

The visor cap was found in early 2022 in the area of Brest, Bretagne in discarded bulk waste.

Field-gray wool, cap insignia in Bevo-woven execution, two pebbled buttons at front, silver cord piping around crown. Interior with lining and brown sweatband, size approximately 56. The cap has some moth damage, condition 2.

The Schutzmannschaft (= Schuma) was an auxiliary police unit composed of locals from occupied territories of Eastern Europe. The difference from the similar Ordnungsdienst was that they were established in areas under civil administration and integrated into the SS/Orpo command structure. In the formerly Polish territories in the western Soviet Union as well as the former Baltic states, these units received large numbers of recruits. At the end of July 1941, the Schutzmannschaften were expanded by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler into a significant instrument of German rule by force in Eastern Europe. By the end of 1942, the Schumas reached a strength of approximately 300,000 men, organized in units up to battalion strength. They were deployed for guarding concentration camps or actively participated in so-called “anti-bandit operations.”

Manufactured circa 1942. Field-gray wool cloth with white piping around the edge. Complete with Bevo-woven eagle above metal death's head 1st pattern, eyes backed in red, white soutache NCO/officer braid. Interior with brown lining, size 58, with British film prop house stamp “L.M.H.Ltd.” and inventory number. Worn condition, grade 2-.

circa 1944, manufactured from double-sided printed camouflage fabric in oak leaf pattern, exterior showing the spring side. Without ventilation holes on the sides. Size approximately 58. Clearly worn piece, insignia have been removed, condition 2-. Very rare.