Germany, Rbd. A Railway Protection Police Overseas Cap, Dated 1939 Auction Archive (Ordre de la Réunion)

(Ordre de la Réunion)

mounted to a 148 mm (w) x 200 mm (h) black-faced board

measuring 105 mm (w) x 160 mm (h) x 70 mm (d)

an Ordnance NCO’s insignia

Germany, Rbd. A Railway Protection Police Overseas Cap, Dated 1939 Auction Archive (Ordre de la Réunion)(Reichsbahndirektion Schiffchen). Constructed of thick dark blue wool, with fold down panels featuring gently sloping, downward scallops to the front and sides. On the front of the cap is a national eagle, constructed of bright white machine embroidery, with open wings, clutching a mobile wreathed swastika. Directly below it, is a light gray machine embroidered soutache that is sewn to the cap in a standard triangular fashion, with a machine