'Gendarmerie' (Rural Police) Overseas Cap (Polizei Schiffchen). The police were divided into eight assorted branches of service and during the restructuring the different police agencies were assigned specific identifying 'Truppenfarbe' (Branch Colors), with the orange truppenfarbe being allocated to the 'Gendarmerie' (Rural Police). This is an standard EM/NCO's style overseas cap, the cap is having orange coloured 'Gendarmerie' piping along the top edge. The cap is having a BeVo-woven cap-eagle original applied on front. The cap is nicely maker marked and dated1938, it is size '57' marked. The cap shows some minor traces of years of storage and some minimal moth damage. Nice original example in very good condition!