04-22-2003, 07:53 AM
This is the M22 summer budenny hat. It was used until it was replaced by the peaked cap in the M24 regs.
I have one, infantry, and the material looks the same. This one looks to be in quite good condition, especially the cloth star. Mine is very faded and worn, but I do have an M22 tunic which is in great condition - likely unissued, just some moth nips on the wool insignia. The badge is obviously 1940s+. However, my M22 hat came with no badge and I finally found the proper hammer and plow badge separately so mabe it was added.
As for the purple. Nothing OGPU I have ever heard of - border guards were green, konvoy troops - royal bue and GPU/OGPU state security had black! In a list of army branch colours 1922 there is only "biryuzoviy" which I am pretty sure is not purple but I don't have my dictionary at work.
The only other option, if genuine cloth star, is something non-military and non-OGPU, railway perhaps as DougD says...
Shawn
I have one, infantry, and the material looks the same. This one looks to be in quite good condition, especially the cloth star. Mine is very faded and worn, but I do have an M22 tunic which is in great condition - likely unissued, just some moth nips on the wool insignia. The badge is obviously 1940s+. However, my M22 hat came with no badge and I finally found the proper hammer and plow badge separately so mabe it was added.
As for the purple. Nothing OGPU I have ever heard of - border guards were green, konvoy troops - royal bue and GPU/OGPU state security had black! In a list of army branch colours 1922 there is only "biryuzoviy" which I am pretty sure is not purple but I don't have my dictionary at work.
The only other option, if genuine cloth star, is something non-military and non-OGPU, railway perhaps as DougD says...
Shawn
