Italian Trop tunic

[Jeff Leser]

James

All excellent points and no disagreements. I was limiting my discussion to whether the tunic was a wartime pattern. I have stated my concerns, and will leave it at that. I will state once again that I could be wrong. My interest in A.S. is recent and focused more on accurate reproductions than validating individual uniform items.

I have two of these tunics. The one without shoulder straps has a stamp. Unfortunately it is too faint to read. It doesn’t appear to a size marking, but a depot stamp. The tunic with the shoulder strap lacks stamps. Both have plastic buttons, although these buttons are poorly sewn on to the tunic. Several have fallen off with little use. While I have several original g-v items, I don’t have any A.S. clothing items to compare fabric. However, I would rate the fabric of these two tunics as pretty good. Tight weave, smooth feel, resists snagging and tearing.

Again, thanks for the comments.

Pista!

Jeff

[afrikasandman]

Ok guys so here comes a bunch of pics. There is no sign of a size stamp at all on the inside, only the three 15 over the AGO and the 42 below that. There is also the same stamp on the belt. The tunic is sewn together with a green thread and the ribbon bar is sewn on with a brown thread as is the metal device on the right pocket. The buttons seem to be plastic to me and are sewn onto the tunic with a thick brown string/cord. The buttons are all sewn on the same way. If any other pics are needed please let me know. I am looking forward to getting to the bottom of this! Matt

[afrikasandman]

you can see the brown thread and how the ribbon bar is sewn on, both sides of the ribbon bar on the top and bottom, the bottom also has a few stitches in the middle of the bar.

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more pics

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back of ribbon bar (how its sewn through)

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the metal device sewn on right pocket, the detail is much better than what I can capture with my camera (my skills are bad as evident in the pics), but its an eagle standing on a fascies with wings open, its right wing is on the back side of the wreath and his left is on the outside of the wreath with SPQR below the facies.

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shows how the eagle is sewn to the right breast pocket. Second pic is the inside shot of the bottom right pocket.

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shoulder board and shoulder board button hole

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shoulder board button and how they are sewn on

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back side of tunic and the stamping on the belt

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Stampings on the upper neck portion of the tunic and the two stamps on the bottom of the inside of the tunic, exactly the same as the one on the belt

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front buttons and how they are sewn, same throughout the tunic

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back side of where buttons are sewn on

[Paolo Marzetti]

An example of a good of the time one for sure:PaoloM