Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Ordnungspolizei Administrative Officer’s Visor Cap GTRexclude Klasse mit Schwertern) War Merit

Klasse mit Schwertern) War Merit Cross Second Class with Swords

Naming is crudely engraved

Footnote: Samuel James Gothard was born in Scotland in 1874 and worked as a Publisher in Vancouver BC and enlisted in October 1915

within in a rope border

maker marked M 1/72 and RZM

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Rare Ordnungspolizei Administrative Officer’s Visor Cap GTRexclude Klasse mit Schwertern) War Merit(Schirmmtze fr Offiziere der Verwaltung). A rare and extremely well preserved Ordnungspolizei Administrative Officers visor cap, constructed of classic police style cyan green wool. The cap features reinforced side walls, with the exterior bearing a smooth dark brown wool cap band. Silver grey piping fully surrounds the circumference of the crown, as well as the top and bottom edges of the cap band. Pinned onto the peak is a tri colour cockade