Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Officer’s Bergmütze, Named to Oberarzt Günther Sehr, by Litto of Vienna

(Luftwaffe Bergmütze für Offiziere). A rare and well-preserved Luftwaffe Bergmütze (Mountain Cap), constructed of dark grey wool with a fine whipcord weave. The cap is surrounded by fold-down side panels, scalloped toward the front, which provide optional ear and neck protection to the wearer. When not in use, the panels roll up and fasten in position with a single pebbled zink button which emanates from the right panel and meets a reinforced buttonhole perforated into the left. A length of silver aluminum wire piping trims the outer edge of the crown. Stitched onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a dark grey wool backer bearing a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, measuring 70 mm (w) x 40 mm (h). Directly below the eagle, the front also features a tri-colour cockade measuring 23 mm in diameter, and executed in multi-coloured wire with a red wool centrepiece. A protruding visor completes the exterior features, and consists of a rigid card stock core lined in identical whipcord wool cloth. A multi-piece slate-grey rayon liner encompasses the interior, with an intact length of stitching near the front maintaining the cap’s high and narrow peak. A wide dark brown leather sweatband surrounds the side whiles, while the crown retains a fully-intact transparent plastic rhomboid moisture guard. The latter bears a maker’s mark of “LITTO-MÜTZE, WINE” for the former firm of Littomericzky, while a white paper label inserted into the guard bears a typewritten owner’s name of “DR. MED. GÜNTHER SEHR”, above a handwritten rank of “OBERARZT”. The cap measures approximately 21 cm (w) x 25.5 cm (l) x 15 cm (h). Hand-stitched repairs are visible to the back half of the sweatband in a clear break with the front half’s original zig-zag stitching, but the cap demonstrates not other notable damage or wear and is a scarce example of a named Bergmütze to a Luftwaffe Medical Officer in extremely fine condition.