SS FJ jump smock

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I saw one of these at the SOS this year. They were asking $25,000 for it. I thought it was fake...

There is a dealer in the upper Midwest of the US who has had one I have seen. I do not collect SS field uniforms of any kind, and I do not follow fakes.

I do know, however, my own experience from four decades plus ago and I can likely find the correspondence somewhere.

[Grimebox]

Here's an earlier thread which has a period image of an FJ in pea dot camo

SS Fallschirmjager Uniforms and Camoflage.

[CBH]

Thanks for the photos , information and link , I never before , believed these were real .

[Horst Wessel]

These pictures deserve to be in this thread for easier navigation in the future.

[Sarge]

I saw my first SS jump smock at a gun show in Kansas in the mid 60s. Like a dumb-ass I did not buy it because it was priced about double for a splinter smock.
I have movie footage of a FJ wearing the SS smock - supposedly in Italy. This was most likely Lw Fj because they received some of the SS smocks.
I also have a copy of either Der Adler or Die Wehrmach showing a large formation of Fj in a courtyard (take from a balcony). They are all wearing dot pattern smocks.
Sarge

[lebus12]

Many thanks....I have all the copies of Der Adler and Die Wehrmacht, i will look...

[TrondK]

Thats a rare bird.

[Roald Thamesen]

These pictures deserve to be in this thread for easier navigation in the future.

What book is that picture from?

[CBH]

I'm not sure which book the above images are from, but they do show SS Para Smocks, in the Micheal Beaver book "Uniforms of the Waffen-SS" Vol III.