USSR Customs uniforms

Tal Inbar · 05-03-2003, 05:23 PM

Is it?

Tal Inbar · 05-03-2003, 05:24 PM

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Tal Inbar · 05-03-2003, 05:25 PM

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charlet · 05-03-2003, 06:26 PM

theorically it could be...taken from a site using ukrainian national symbol. This stuff keeps working a factory, only to make such copies of soiet stuff...These uniforms worries me, I've seen one like the general's one for sale in Munich. The visor cap is impressively ugly.
I'm like you Tal, uniforms of customs, border gards (and KGB generals) are often proposed as rare items, but I NEVER successed find a doc from the soviet times showing them (and I have a quite big book dedicated to border gards...

DougD · 05-04-2003, 11:18 AM

I found this tunic in my inventory; M1943 Customs officer. I can't say I know more about it.

DD

vikingraider1 · 05-04-2003, 12:54 PM

Tal,
Surely the two single breasted uniforms are female uniforms. They button over to right.

05-03-2003, 06:26 PM	#4
charlet Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Germany Age: 49 Posts: 791	theorically it could be...taken from a site using ukrainian national symbol. This stuff keeps working a factory, only to make such copies of soiet stuff...These uniforms worries me, I've seen one like the general's one for sale in Munich. The visor cap is impressively ugly. I'm like you Tal, uniforms of customs, border gards (and KGB generals) are often proposed as rare items, but I NEVER successed find a doc from the soviet times showing them (and I have a quite big book dedicated to border gards... __________________ Sebastien "a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism" (a well-known german bearbed)

05-04-2003, 12:54 PM	#6
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	Tal, Surely the two single breasted uniforms are female uniforms. They button over to right. __________________ "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

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