GREEN SHIRT - opinion please
Hello,
Stamp reads "1954 4430".
C.
Hello,
Stamp reads "1954 4430".
C.
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I would agree. Not a good feeling about this one...Originally posted by corporalSteiner View PostComment
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hello,
i think "41" stamp is for colar size expressed in cm.
derkaComment
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you mean longer like this one ??Originally posted by corporalSteiner View Post
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=355979Comment
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I must agree with you : my shirts is stamped 42 and I have just measured it and it has 42 cm in collar.Originally posted by derka View PostComment
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The two four-digit numbers are batches, not years of production.
When Christopher got his shirt from a vet's family and we have at least three shirts (the one 19BARBAROSA41 started the thread with, the tropical one of Christopher/DAKCollector1 and my blue-grey specimen) with short collar tips, and this special weave pattern was discussed and approved on other (long collar tip) shirts, I would say all those shirts have a VERY good chance to be genuine by pure logic. Shirts are a difficult field and what I have seen here just backed my positive opinion about the short collar shirts made of these weave fabric.
I also prefer the long collar tip shirts as they represent the fashion on the time the war started. But there a repros out there with those kind of collar tips, too. It is impossible to judge based on the length of the collar tips alone.Comment
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Hello,Originally posted by RamJet View Post
I agree. I can not think of any reason to doubt the source of my DAK shirt. More importantly, the proliferation of this style & weave in Heer tropical green, Heer continental blue-grey and Luft tropical tan would seem to indicate German wartime manufacture. Unlike modern fakes or Czech surplus, this style is on the "rarer" side and is seldom seen.
I too have a "traditional" German tropical shirt just like 19BARBAROSSA41's in post 19 below. But I also have this heavier and more durable WW2 German variant.
Best,
ChristopherComment
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Hi Christopher,
I suppose my blue-grey one is a Luftwaffe shirt. As I said, will do some pics until the end of next week.
Have a nice evening,
SteveComment
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shirt
More like this one......bought a few years ago in Germany with to other types in greene...near mint......take a look at the extreme pointed collar......Last edited by Eric Mill; 05-17-2009, 05:58 AM.Comment
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Full length
Full length backside...take a look how extreme long the shirt is.......(distance sleeve ends to end of shirt).........all the shirt i have encountered have this rather long "look" ..........Last edited by Eric Mill; 05-17-2009, 06:00 AM.Comment
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Detail pocket
Detail pocket...all over paper/cardboard buttons.....Last edited by Eric Mill; 05-17-2009, 06:00 AM.Comment
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Detail collar
Detail collarComment
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Sleeve ends
Sleeve endsComment
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Eric,
I would say Your shirt has a normal pointed collar. Please compare with my textbook short-sleeve tropical shirt:
(More here: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...t+afrika+shirt )
The collar fashion obviously changed during the war, You could see that on the privately tailored fighter pilot leather jackets. I have one with a pointed collar indicating early war time, but look at pics of Erich Hartmann or others in 1944 or compare with other genuine examples now in collections and You will notice shorter collar tips.
The extreme length of the shirts also was abandoned when material supply got shorter and shorter in war years. Especially for the manufacturers in the occupied countries which got contracts for so-and-so much thousand shirts and a material contingent to make them from ...
A VERY long shirt with VERY long collar tips has VERY good chances to be genuine early war. But that doesn't mean that a shorter one with small collar could not be period. Don't forget: The early enlisted man shirts had no collar at all.Comment
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