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01-07-2008 12:15 PM
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Revisited.... Interesting M41 overcoat
Dimas,
Reviving this old thread, I have some questions about the coat you show if you still have it. Or can remember if you do not. I ask because I just aquired a very similar coat. This gabardine wool with very obvious weave lines showing in it.... much thinner than Soviet overcoat wool. The coat I have has black flannel liner like the one you show here. The wool might be WW1 US as you suggest, but sure looks like British "Battle Dress" gabardine to me.
I was wondering if the tail or bottom of your coat has a hem stitch. I ask, because mine does and such a stitch is uncharacteristic of a Soviet made coat. Mine has a Soviet stamp on one of the pocket liners, but I wonder if these coats are not British made given the construction details?
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Re: Interesting M41 overcoat
Hi Mike, I agree, the material certainly looks like it could well be British.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Interesting M41 overcoat
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Adrian Stevenson
Hi Mike, I agree, the material certainly looks like it could well be British.
Cheers, Ade.
Ade, you would know better than I... but it does look like the classic British BD gabardine of the era. Given tha the EM trousers I showed in the other thread are dated 41, it is obvious that the USSR was reveiving finished uniform goods from the western allies very early, not just raw materials. When I get a chance, I will photo a few of the other construction details that make me think that this coat was made in the UK and not in the USSR. In basic form it is certainly a Soviet M41 overcoat, but looks like it was made by a factory that was used to doing things a little bit differently.
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