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| Many caps have a round or oval decoration with a
"bull’s eye" consisting of three colored rings. Since this might help you
identify caps in your own collection, I’ve compiled a list of some of the common
combinations. The colors are listed from the outer ring to the center. In cases where the
cockade is made up of three colored bars, the listing is from top to bottom or left to
right. By the way, if you're looking for reproduction cockades for a spiked helmet, check out Rudy Sauro. He's got a fabulous selection at reasonable prices. |
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Argentina
Light blue, white, light blue
Austria
Red, white, red (bars until about 1945)
Belgium
Red, yellow, black
Denmark
Red, white, red
Finland
White, light blue, white
Germany (Imperial)
| National colors Anhalt Baden Bavaria Bremen Braunschweig Hamburg Hessen Lippe Lubeck Mecklenburg Oldenburg Prussia Sachsen-Kolburg-Meiningen Sachsen-Weimar Schaumberg-Lippe Swartzburg-Rudolfstadt Swartzburg-Sonderhausen Waldeck-Reuss Württemburg |
black, white, red green yellow, red, yellow white, light blue, white white red, white light blue, yellow, light blue white with red cross white, double red ring, white yellow, red white with red Maltese cross blue, yellow, red light blue, red, light blue black, white, black green, white, green green, yellow, black white, red, blue blue, white, blue white, blue, white yellow, red, black black, red, black |
Germany (Federal Republic)
Yellow, black, red
Hungary
Green, white, red (bars) (1919-1949)
Red, white, green with red star (bars) (1958-1991)
Red, white, green (bars) (1991-present)
Italy
Red, white, green
Netherlands
Orange (within metal or braided boss)
Norway
Blue, white, red
Russia (Imperial)
Black, orange (number of rings and size depends on rank)
Serbia
White, blue, white
Sweden
Yellow, light blue, yellow (national colors)
Three crowns on a blue field (button often used in tandem with cockade)