Prussian Kaiser Wilhelm II Personal Visor Cap of the 8th Hussar Regiment.

Prussian "pre-war" Colored Visor Cap from the Personal Property of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Visor of the 8th Hussar Regiment. Circa 1910.
Elegant high stiff plate form. Cloth of exceptionally fine officer quality, with some moth damage that can be seen on the pictures. Dark blue color & Light blue cap band and white piping, complete with both cockades in fine officer execution, black stiff visor of vulcanized fiber with white color inside. 

Interior with light sweatband (one repair pictured) and white silk lining with gold-printed owner's monogram, imperial crown over “W”, size 57. Inside Lining and sweat band are the stamps of the "Kostümfundus Kassel" "A" and the numbers 16 and 219. We have seen a few other items from the same provenance these past years. All marked the same way.

The Wilhelmshöhe Castle was the favorite Summer residence of the Imperial familly from 1899 to 1918. In 1918, after the armistice ended World War I, the Oberste Heeresleitung, the High Command of the Germany Army under Paul von Hindenburg was moved to Wilhelmshöhe from Spa (Belgium) to organize and lead the withdrawal and demobilization of the German troops. It remained at Wilhelmshöhe until February 1919, when it moved to Kolberg.