WWII German PANZER SS M43 TRAPEZOID cap insignia (72)

RARE! WWII German PANZER SS M43 TRAPEZOID CAP INSIGNIA. (Mützen Abzeichen). In 1944 the SS developed a single piece of cap insignia which incorporated both the skull and eagle on a one-piece trapezoid base for wear on the M43 field cap. Originally these trapezoidal pieces of insignia were produced in a machine woven version until a final, embroidered version was introduced in late 1944. The first versions of the trapezoidal cap insignia featured dual rows of teeth in the skull while later versions only had a single row of teeth SS   Panzer personnel’s cap trapezoids were produced with a black base to match the color of the cap it was to be worn on.  First pattern, Bevo woven construction, SS style national eagle with out-stretched wings, clutching an encircled, canted, swastika in its talons, positioned above a skull and cross bones with a bottom jaw and dual rows of teeth in matte, silvery/grey, rayon threads mounted on a woven, black rayon trapezoidal base. The insignia is still on its original, black rayon