KM reefer jacket

[lewjian]

Did anyone check on this on ebay recently? According to the seller it's private purchased, I think it looks quite good from outside but the liner is a little bit unusual. Is it a good one?

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...ies%26_fvi%3D1

[airborne_steve]

Looks like it could be a good tunic? Hard to tell with private purchase tunics, could be early east german. Is there remains of an eagle?

Steve

[lewjian]

Looks like it could be a good tunic? Hard to tell with private purchase tunics, could be early east german. Is there remains of an eagle?

Steve

It saids 'Eagle is gone, but you can see the area where it was'.

[Gerard/Relic Hunter]

East German tunics had 4 sets of buttons/buttonholes, not 5. Also, boards look original, badge loops are ww2 period braid. Nice set.

[km-spain]

Usually in the Kriegsmarine reefer jackets you find two rows of 5 buttons, with 4 buttoned and 1 unbuttoned, but you can find reefer jackets of 5 buttoned as this one, but it's really rare and I have seen only 1 or 2 in all these years.

Shoulders are original but are replaced IMO. I agree with Gerard about the badge loops. You can see a linning inside the collar, rare ???

So a WW2 original?, not sure but I'm not very confortable with it.

[Leroy]

I agree that the lining is a bit strange, but I really like this tunic. The loops look great and the fabric quality is what I like to see. Perhaps tailored in an occupied country like France or Holland. I agree with km-spain about the scarcity of 5 fully functional buttons, but I have had these before and would be glad to have this one.
Leroy