Pogony M 43

[Dom]

Hi guy's ,

what do you think about this

German made ??

Thanks in advance

[RichieC]

I own examples with those type of braided edgings - even the color appears to be the same. I believe they are good Dom, and I agree with your "German made" insinuation.

[Dom]

Thanks Richie

the seller says "manufacturing Austrian Ersatz 1945, recovered from old stock in the 70's in Vienna" -

Always interesting to have

[RichieC]

I also have the matching collar tabs... Same edgings, same background material.

[Dom]

I also have the matching collar tabs... Same edgings, same background material.

an image please

[RichieC]

Won't be for a while Dom. I am away from home for a few months...

[Dom]

Let us be patient

[bourguignotte]

Nice found
Interesting to see all these occupied production for the soviet army
Quality looks good
Bruno

[Dom]

Thanks Bruno ,

yes but it is "Deutsche qualität"

A further example :

[ASR]

Hello,

I have examples from this stocks in my collection also.

I would like to know why are them german manufacture.

Unlike german made caps for the Red Army, nothing -in my opinion- betrays german workmanship.

The first one with the body and bindings made of cotton tape seems rather standard: I have three pairs from different sources (France, Spain, USA) obtained during a five year timespan with little differences in backing but overall same style.

As for the technical / chemical service ones, they are indeed made from german material, but couldn'y it be possible that they were wartime made in Russia from captured german materials?

I suppose they captured a pretty good deal of german fabric when they overrun Kiev and other cities of western Ukraine. I have seen once a Gymnasterka made with grigio-verde Italian feldgrau type summer fabric, exactly like the one commonly found at pattern 1940 Italian summer weight tunics for mainland use. I assume this was german captured fabric in 1943 and sent to some Ukrainian / Polish workshop, and then <<liberated>> by the soviets.

returning to the boards, my example is made of a blck backing, where two strips of silver lace have been sewn allowing a space in between for the vertical junior ranks stripe.