Pilotka

Chuck In Oregon · 08-29-2003, 03:15 AM

I bought a great pre-1937 group photo of some young Soviet military pilots last weekend. The family "threw in" a couple of very nice pilotkas. They are both very heavy wool. One is dark grey-green and has a 1940 mark under the sweatband. The other is more of a brown and has no sweat band or markings at all. One has an old Red Star on the front, the other has no badge at all. What are authentic WW2 pilotkas worth these days? I haven't got a clue.

Chuck In Oregon

Bazanov · 09-03-2003, 03:52 PM

Do anyone know from witch year this one is from?
Any other information you can get from it, I am very happy with any fact because i know nothing about it...

vikingraider1 · 09-03-2003, 04:27 PM

That looks like a 1970s - 80s pilotka. The inside has been bleached by the owner. The material seems to match the tropical style field uniform used during the early years of the Afgahnistan war. the cap badge was usually a red star and not the subdued green star.

Nack · 12-09-2004, 01:48 PM

Is this a Soviet-era pilotka or a current-issue Russian pilotka?

Also, can anyone tell me what the white writing says?

Thanks as always.

charlet · 12-09-2004, 02:04 PM

Kharkov (...) fabric, 1976 year. This is soviet!

08-29-2003, 03:15 AM	#1
Chuck In Oregon Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 209	Pilotka Value? I bought a great pre-1937 group photo of some young Soviet military pilots last weekend. The family "threw in" a couple of very nice pilotkas. They are both very heavy wool. One is dark grey-green and has a 1940 mark under the sweatband. The other is more of a brown and has no sweat band or markings at all. One has an old Red Star on the front, the other has no badge at all. What are authentic WW2 pilotkas worth these days? I haven't got a clue. Chuck In Oregon

09-03-2003, 04:27 PM	#3
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	That looks like a 1970s - 80s pilotka. The inside has been bleached by the owner. The material seems to match the tropical style field uniform used during the early years of the Afgahnistan war. the cap badge was usually a red star and not the subdued green star. __________________ "We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead... and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." King George V, Flanders, 1922

12-09-2004, 02:04 PM	#5
charlet Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Germany Age: 49 Posts: 791	Kharkov (...) fabric, 1976 year. This is soviet! __________________ Sebastien "a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism" (a well-known german bearbed)

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