Germany, Third Reich. A Storage Case for an Officer’s Privately-Purchased Visor Cap, Owner-Named Example consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The underside of the cap

The underside of the cap and peak is lined in brownish-green wool

certified by the handwritten signature of Vizeadmiral Otto von Schrader (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross

he served in the Reichswehr General Staff

American College of Physical Medicine (Aviation Medicine)) and is credited with having supplied illustrations to Grant's "Method of Anatomy"

before returning home to Hampton Roads

Germany, Third Reich. A Storage Case for an Officer’s Privately-Purchased Visor Cap, Owner-Named Example consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The underside of the cap(Etui fr Schirmmtze). An extremely well preserved storage case issued alongside a Wehrmacht or SS Officers privately purchased visor cap, constructed of a hardshell frame with a faux black leather exterior liner, both the base and lid reinforced with layer of light brown leatherette affixed in place with multiple rows of hand stitching, with an integral leather strap emanating from the back of the side walls and extending across the lid (held in place