Germany, Heer. A Flak/Artillery EM/NCO’s Visor Cap, by Josef Weithmann Republic of twenty-three black and white photographs

twenty-three black and white photographs (documenting his life: beginning with Sikes as a child

Awarded to Obergefreiten Siegfried Schwittling on 22 April 1944

with postwar handwritten inscription indicating that the date and location are in Himmler’s handwriting

with an overall weight of 18

overlaid by olive-drab splinters

Germany, Heer. A Flak/Artillery EM/NCO’s Visor Cap, by Josef Weithmann Republic of twenty-three black and white photographs(Heer Schirmmtze fr Mannschaften der Flak Artillerie). An extremely well preserved Heer Flak Artillery EM NCOs visor cap, constructed of fine field grey wool. It features reinforced side walls fully lined on the exterior with a dark green wool cap band. Both the top and bottom edges of the cap band are trimmed with red wool piping, while an additional length of identical piping borders the outer edge of the crown. Pinned onto the peak is a silvered