Whats the best site for South Vietnamese and Cambodian army stuff

[kammo man]

NTS
That is a good story .
To find something made in a town that you have never seen something made is classic .
I thought it looked different !!!
That is one great looking piece of headgear .
And with the plastic ties makes it eve cooler .....to me .
thanks and keep posting your gems
owen

[express06snail]

Tanker Beret ?

Here is my tanker beret with a paper label, the bullion badge does it look right ?

[Patrick Dempsey]

Hello Stanley,

i am afraid to say that the beret as a whole gives me cause for concern....

From reading your post i imagine that you have had your own doubts for a while?




Patrick.

[express06snail]

Hello Stanley,

i am afraid to say that the beret as a whole gives me cause for concern....

From reading your post i imagine that you have had your own doubts for a while?




Patrick.

G'day Patrick, Yes, my doubt is about the circle of the badge, it must be in gold color, from which I compared to our fellow photos posted in this thread, mine one is different... may be fake though...

[VALERY226]

Bonjour,
Like Patrick, I have unfortunately the same assessment, some warning lights appear on this beret:
- the bullion badge seems is too thick for me ;
- I don't like the paper label (even if you could find original paper labels) ;
- the "plastic leathered" sweet band seems too smooth and material little different than the original ;
Sorry but that's my 2 cents...
Cheers
Valery

[Jeff Ashenfelter]

Hi Stanley,
Welcome to the forum, as per my pm to you your picture confirms my original assesement. These Hoang-Nam labeled berets were an early reproduction that originated in Hong Kong. They still fool many collectors as they are a rather close reproduction of the original. I also bought several of these when I first started collecting berets.
They still pop up now and then but I still consider them usefull as a tool to help you identify features of an original in comparison purposes! Jeff

[kammo man]

Go to the Vintage Productions web site if you are looking for the best Vietnam collectables in the world .
owen

[express06snail]

Some more berets came out of Vietnam recently...

I think they making fake bullion badges as well...

[express06snail]

The VNMC beret badge, the backing material must be in Red color though... here I got it green...

[Patrick Dempsey]

Hello Stan,


thanks for posting the images of recent repros, always good to see what is being created.




Patrick.

[nguoi tien su]

It looks like those made in Thailand... Jeff will be glad to see a copy of the Hung Dao WITH the điện thọai !

[express06snail]

It looks like those made in Thailand... Jeff will be glad to see a copy of the Hung Dao WITH the điện thọai !

Yeah, the faker now becoming mad for their money... poorly sweatband stitching... NTS you speak Tiếng Việt right ?...

[nguoi tien su]

Có thể ! Theo tôi, viết khó hơn nói rất nhiều !

[kammo man]

At least these fakes look fake .


Fake ola



owen