Original German WWII Waffen SS Officer’s Field Gray Wool M40 Overseas “Schiffchen” Side Cap with Insignia Martini-Henry Rifles Its combination of exceptional mobility

Its combination of exceptional mobility - being light enough to be carried by one man - and high rate of fire (of up to 900 rounds per minute) was unmatched

the field glasses are offered in excellent functional condition

and the brass fittings do have some verdigris

claimed to have invented the usage of a V-sign in February 1941 as a magical foil to the NSDAP use of the swas

MANILLA 1945

Original German WWII Waffen SS Officer’s Field Gray Wool M40 Overseas “Schiffchen” Side Cap with Insignia Martini-Henry Rifles Its combination of exceptional mobilityOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent high condition example of a German WWII Waffen SS Officers M40 Overseas Side Cap (Schiffchen). This is what some would refer to as a textbook example of this rare cap. Enlisted versions of this model cap are hard enough to find, let alone an officers version with the officers bullion rank braid and insignia which has been applied since the cap was made. It was acquired recently from a very old