Officer’s hat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, inv. no. P3688/2599

Material: felt, cloth, leather, metal

Dimensions: length 39.5 cm, height 16.5 cm, width 13 cm

Made by Franz Thill's Neffe Seiner Majestät kammer-u K. und K. Hoflieferant, Vienna

Used in the Austro-Hungarian Navy

Used: between 1910 and 1918

 

Ivan Koršič's double-brimmed hat of the naval superior of the Austro-Hungarian Navy according to the 1907 regulation . The hat has a brim band for senior officers and cockades for clergy on the horns. The hat was part of the parade, ceremonial and service uniform with hat and redingote. The naval clergy also wore it with the gown and cingulum (belt) and alb. Ivan Koršič wore the hat from 1910, when he became a Naval Superior, until the dissolution of the Monarchy in 1918.