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04-04-2009 09:12 PM
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Re: Budenovka - fake or original?
Please needs more detailed pictures, also the back part of the star
Regards,
Dimas
my Skype: warrelics
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Re: Budenovka - fake or original?
I'am affraid we need a full back part of the star, most probably that is a copy or 1967 year issue, from the first pictures of the hat I can't say nothing, needs more detailed pictures
Regards,
Dimas
my Skype: warrelics
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Re: Budenovka - fake or original?
I agree with the comments of the other members. While I cannot offer any more techincal information I can say this... Collecting material from the Civil War era and just after is a very dangerous road. From what I have seen, the material available on the open market (particularly in the West) is heavliy skewed towards a high percentage of fakes & reproductions versus original. When I say heavily, I mean like 90/10 or worse. When I was involved in the dealer side of this hobby for a while, we chose to simply not touch it. If one must... the safest things of this era are items of field gear. Uniforms and Headgear are really stacked against the perspective collector. A sea of bad material ranging from outright forgeries, 60 year old theater costumes that look old enough, and old nostalgic celebration reproductions now passed off as original.
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Re: Budenovka - fake or original?
Thank you for the very helpful comments and background info! I did not know this was such a dangerous area, the original budenovkas I saw so far where later styles and rather cheap. I got mine for a bargain price so it does not ruin me.
Just for the heck I did check the buttons. There is no plastic beneath, I can run needles through them. They are made of sort of a knurled knot unter the felt.
I also made a picture of the back side of the star.
RichieC is right about the leather straps. All other pictures show these straps to be made of cloth. I was hoping to find a killer detail such as a wrong material somewhere to be shure (its a fake because of...). They are quite brittle too so I won´t close the buttons any more, no need to break the part - it is still a nice shelf item.
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Re: Budenovka - fake or original?
Regards,
Dimas
my Skype: warrelics
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Re: Budenovka - fake or original?
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Dimas
Star IMO a repro
Dimas,
is there a shure way to tell an original? How should this look like on the reverse side? I am eager to learn the facts.
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Re: Budenovka - fake or original?
Unfortunately I don't have an original example, but owned them and saw originals, they are different in construction, your is known fake example
Regards,
Dimas
my Skype: warrelics
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