Maroon beret

[mandy333]

Greetings: I have an oportunity to purchase the following maroon beret for $250.00. Having never handled these "elusive" items, and being the markings have long worn off the interior, I request the assistance of the experts to help authenticate this as WW2 before I purchase it. It is in rough condition but following the information set forth in this forum, I believe it is good. That being said I would very much appreciate if the heavyweights would wade in and share their expertise and knowledge by expressing their opinion. Thank you all for your consideration in repling .
Best Regards
Zeke

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maroon beret

Inside

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maroon beret

Close up of some wear and moth damage

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maroon beret

Outside air gromets

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maroon beret

Close up of the tie string

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maroon beret

Close up of interior with remnants of some marking

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maroon beret

Leather cover over the air gromets on the interior

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maroon beret

British airborne badge

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maroon beret

Finally the badge pin. Thank you and I look forward to all your replies.
Best Regards
Zeke

[Greg B]

Hi Zeke , A nice original wartime beret with a real salty appearance at a very good price IMO
I would certainly buy it at that price.

Greg

[mandy333]

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Hi Zeke , A nice original wartime beret with a real salty appearance at a very good price IMO
I would certainly buy it at that price.

Greg

Greetings Greg: Thank you for the reply. I greatly appreciate it.The material looks correct and my "gut feeling" was good by looking at the construction and wear of it, but it's always nice to have the approval by the experts. All the best!
Regards
Zeke

[Mark Gibson]

Personally I would like to see the light stitching or tacking around the inside holding the hessian in place but, correct me if I'm wrong, some berets didn't have this.

Mark

[Greg B]

Personally I would like to see the light stitching or tacking around the inside holding the hessian in place but, correct me if I'm wrong, some berets didn't have this.

Mark

Hi Mark, If you look at pic7 I think you can just see a thread to the left of the Leather patch.

Greg

[Mark Gibson]

It looks a little bit more like a shadow from a crease to me Greg.

Mark

[Greg B]

It looks a little bit more like a shadow from a crease to me Greg.

Mark

Now Mark, put your glasses on and look past the crease shadow approx 4 cm to the left from the corner of the leather patch there is a definate thread reflecting light. I've just cleaned my screen to make sure there wasn't something on the face of it. Then again it might just be a hair. But still the beret looks good to me it might help Zeke if you could do another couple of interia pics.