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Mecklenburg dress cap


Fritz

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A dress cap for other ranks of the Mecklenburg regiments, Grenadier-Regiment 89 or Füsilier-Regiment 90

It could also be for Dragoner-Regiment 17. The dragoon regiments usually had a lighter blue uniform, but this varied in shade from light to cornflower blue.

Fine quality dark blue cloth with red band and crown piping, band with internal stiffener and brown leather sweat band, the interior with a saffran coloured silk lining. The sweat band is detached at the front, evidence that this could have also been a peaked cap (peak now missing). No makers details. On the band is the cockade in Mecklenburg colours, red, gold, blue, which is an NCO version, the Reichscockade as a normal version, not matching, a later replacement. Peaked caps were permitted for the cavalry as from 1912. Condition otherwise very fresh.
Purchased at a flea market in Hamburg in the mid 1970s for 10 D-Mark.

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