This size tag is attached to a Soviet Naval Officers hat I picked up in 1988. Can any of our Russian collectors provide a rough translation?
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It was made at the Moscow Manufacturing Union Main Section "Zarnitsa" at #5 Moldyavskaya Dom Street, Moscow, naval overseas cap ("furazhka"), size 57, made in July 1987, retail price 6 rubles 89 kopecks. Most of the numbers are just the gobbledygook of Gubamint Contracts Everywhere. Oddly, there is no "quality" ("Sort") stamped in-- 1 was top, 2nd the usual for officers, 3 "good enough" for mere rankers in The Classless Society.
Absence of the "Copt" class indicates it may have been rejected or was pinched by a worker.Comment
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Thanks
Thank you Rick. Your not going to believe it but I bought it over there in 1988 at a Soviet military clothing store. Our group (mainly of US military) were taken to a military clothing store and allowed to buy only officers stuff. We thought we had great items but based on your comment above on the lack of quality stamps, the Russians must have sold us reject items. BTW the tag is held by the thinest nylon-like line I ever saw at the back of the hat. Again thank you for your help.Comment
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Or... perhaps lack of an "official" quality rating is because it was held out of inventory to be sold to Gullible Furriners! The price for a 1st quality is listed at 5.55, yet "retail" (those furriners!) is 6.89--
you got "screwed!"
(Murcan G.I. pay in dolluhs?)
I have a sailor's "fish fur" winter cap (squirrel on the maker tag, just to confuse the faux-fur issue) with the same sort of tag from early in the post-Gorbachev period.
Never occurred to me that these were OFFICIALLY sold outside their services!Comment
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Yep
Rick- When we were taken to the clothing sales store which I got this hat at they also had Army hats there as well--so at that store at least, it was not restricted to just one service. We were just so excited to be allowed in to buy any hat we never would have guessed we were getting their rejects-- maybe thats why they were so eager for the sale. Also picked up through trade along the way a Air Force Officers parade hat and a bunch qualification and guards badges, Army branch patches, belt buckles, shoulder boards etc.--neat stuff then, now very common.Comment
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Oyeah, different world before The Wall came down! My first Order of the Red Star (a nice early thin one, not the thick "cookie" fat type) had-- as most did back then, the serial number ruthlessly scrubbed off...
too bad... still only worth about $30 maybe today if it had the number-- worth a lot less the way it is (nice displayed on a uniform though), but a "snapshot in time" as it were.Comment
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