German "Green Splinter" pattern Camo jacket?

[Wagriff]

Actually, I would be more interested in seeing more photos of the square silver Ring on your finger in the one photo... William

[Eddie]

As an update, in the same shop that I found this jacket and the Italian camo jumpsuit, I found this Luftwaffe Pilots Jacket, marked simply as "European Flight Jacket". I post it to show that this is a total fake, and this casts my two zeltbahn pieces in a worse light now. Lesson learned about fieldmade items and items without provenance!



P.S. A quick google search told me that the RIES zipper company was founded in 1949!

[Adrian Stevenson]

I think a former re-enactor sold his kit to the store.

Cheers, Ade.

[Eddie]

Yes, I think this clinches it for me. Are the boards on this jacket fake as well though? Or are they DDR? I haven't ever handled period epaulets and these looked ok to me. Not going to go out and buy it, just curious for future reference.
Thanks,
Eddie

[jimpy]

Look at it this way, at least the store staff are not claiming/marking them up as "original"!

Regards etc

Ian D

AKA: Jimpy

[Eddie]

that is totally true, very carefully worded, haha