OPINIONS on a RAF Sgt Navigator Jacket

**douglas2496** · 09-18-2013, 03:50 PM

I paid £70 for my 1941 dated jacket (the one with the sgt stripes) and £35 for my 1951 dated tunic with 1953 dated peaked cap. Both were purchased on ebay within the last four years.

Im sorry that I gave you the thumbs up initially only to realise I was wrong- but I have no doubt that your tunic is a 1951 produced example which has probably been altered to deceive- with wartime albatross badges added and the date label removed. I suspect that the navigators wing and ribbons are modern additions. The same thing has happened to me and I know how it feels to find you have been defrauded- it happens to us all at some point.

**Luis Henriques** · 09-18-2013, 03:57 PM

Thanks Douglas, No prob, I appreciate any help.
It is awful, I collect all kind of wwii militaria and in the beginning it was a little hard, but in time I got to know the pieces, but British militaria has been a little out of reach, so as a result I don't know a lot about it. But seriously I just came from England and I was so excited that I really wanted to buy a jacket, and this one seemed legit...and was priced accordingly. Well...I´m trying to solve thing out with the seller.

Thanks

Luis

**canti44** · 09-18-2013, 05:02 PM

Hello there,

I'm no expert and I may be wrong on this but I was under the impression that wartime examples had 4 equally-spaced buttons down the front with the fourth button positioned just below the belt. Post war jackets had a fourth button hidden behind the belt which was flat brass without the RAF logo embossed on it.

Simply, if it's wartime you can see 4 embossed buttons and if it's post-war you see 3. Unless of course someone has tried to make it look wartime and added a 5th!

Cheers,
Ian.

**douglas2496** · 09-18-2013, 05:14 PM

Surely the example from my collection, shown above with peaked cap, dated 1951, contradicts what you have just said? I think you are thinking of postwar RAF officers jackets.