Two pilotkas... what period?

**Zintenhof** · 02-28-2018, 10:19 PM

I got these two pilotkas with some postwar junk. What period production these could be?

First one:

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-28-2018 10:19 PM

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**Zintenhof** · 02-28-2018, 10:25 PM

And the second one... Artel "Rekord", badly readable year:

**Adrian Stevenson** · 03-01-2018, 09:18 AM

Post war 1970's on the first one.

**Zintenhof** · 03-03-2018, 05:02 PM

Pilotka number one after gentle wash... revealed some light greenish color at areas protected from direct UV light. Also I put here some additional material pics. Sure it is from 70´s?

**Zintenhof** · 03-03-2018, 08:59 PM

...and some extra pics from pilotka number two... Artel "Rekord" Harkov (артель "Рекорд" Харьков). 50´s?

**Bill Garvy** · 03-04-2018, 02:27 AM

In this case, I think the "56" refers to the size of the cap...

**Marcel Banziger** · 03-04-2018, 08:00 AM

The 56 in big numbers on the lower right corner is the size indeed. Year is unreadable on this one unfortunately.

**bourguignotte** · 03-21-2018, 10:23 PM

Hello,

Difficult to judge from the photos but the 1st one looks nice too me.

Where were they found? The star is missing. Could it comes from former prisoners?

All the best

Bruno

**Zintenhof** · 03-22-2018, 03:21 PM

Thanks for answers! Yes, the number 56 is size (размер), no problems with that. But the pilotka number one looks somehow suspicious to be from 70`s. For me it looks more like wartime cheap low-quality production.
Also there are no links to associate these with prisones. Usally stars and other insignia is first to go and separated by former owners.
Pilotka number one is household find whrom eastern part of Estonia. I got these pilotkas included in two separate lots of postwar Soviet Army stuff.