Uniforms and insignia for Cossack and ROA/POA
Article about: by TrondK There must be some jackets out there with the "volunteer-eagle/symbol" on the chest. I have somewhere a picture of a drillich jacket with original volunteer eagle, it was
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Yeees, look at that one, Nice!! these trousers are indeed very dark in colour. Very interesting item.. How many mm wide is the red stripe Frei?
I see the stripe on yours starts at the same hight as others.
I am comparing with three other pants in my photo archive, and i see your stripe is stopping abit higher from the end of the leg than the ones i have photo of. (have not permission to show those photos public by owner- sorry.)
But these trousers is most interesting to study.
You have a treasure here Sir. Thank you a million times for showing them.
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Thanks, these pants are indeed very hard to find. I am very happy that I have one in my collection. The red stripe is about 4 cm wide. Due the flash the colour of the pants seems to be blue/grey on the pictures, but in reality the pants are black.
I also have another one but that is a russian brown wool pants that are used by eastern volunteers.
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The brown ones are are very interesting trousers as well.
Makes me happy to see there still exists trousers that has been used by these soldiers. I can imagine it wasnt so healthy to be wearing a pair of striped volunteer trousers if the bolsjeviks caught you.
So most worn examples are most likely buried with the unlucky owner, or hurrily replaced before the end.
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Impressive setup Frei.
I have no Turkistan jackets myself, so it is really nice to see this rare bird. I notice there are no EM collartabs on the jacket, has there been any in the past- or has it been used like this by its owner?
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Thanks again, I have all together about 14 jackets of which are 5 100% untouched and complete. The most jacket you will find do have no collartabs and armshield. They all have been removed.
Some you will find with only the collartabs and a breast eagle or only the armshield but these are less common.
This jacket I have restored a little. I could see on the arm that a armshield was attached and all buttons where lost. I replaced a Original turkistan armshield (most likely due the form) and original buttons. I thinks that there have been no collartabs, no traces of them, so I didn't place them on this jacket.
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That is a lot of jackets.!
Hope to see some more of your treasures sometime in the future frei. You have a very interesting collection of militaria.
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