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08-09-2014 11:40 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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I'm sorry to say that this is a fake, in my opinion. I'm no expert on Soviet headgear but nothing just seems right with this. The red center piece with the decorative golden wreaths is from a postwar visor hat I think and the buttons at the side should not look like that at all, the general cockarde is also a weird hybrid with a postwar cockarde.
Welcome to the forum. Collecting high rank Soviet items is dangerous and very costly, there have been so many "Marshal of the Soviet Union" items turning up during the recent years that you could outfit an army with them.
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I appreciate your thoughts Aleksander. I went into this knowing the odds of this truly being a legitimate war/pre war era MSU visor probably weren't all that great but I figured I'd roll the dice. I DID however compare the band to several legitimate examples that I ve seen in books and the embroidery is nearly identical. The cockade was one that I hadn't seen before although the star itself is magnetic if that helps at all as are the chinstrap buttons. It also passed "ye olde black light test" too and the material looks similar to that of other MSU visors that I ve seen.it even has that 80 year old aroma! If this really is a fake then it would seem somebody put a decent amount of effort into convincing folks otherwise.Collecting can be a mine filed though which is one of the reasons I wanted to ask those in the know. I guess I should try doing that BEFORE I spend the money next time....anyways, thanks again my friend. I do appreciate it
We're paratroopers Lieutenant. We re supposed to be surrounded...
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