Padded jacket

[Doc]

Hi All,

I’d like to know your opinion about this Soviet Russian padded jacket. Do you think is it original WWII period?
Thanks, Doc

[desantnik]

These are made to the present day. I've got several (my wife is not too happy) and they come in even blue and black. Are there any markings?

[DougD]

I agree, these are very tough to date unless you know exactly where it came from. On E they are sold as WWII, even ones that look like they were made yesterday.

[RichieC]

Try and get the larger of the two ink markings on a scanner, or take a super close-up camera shot of it. Then we may possibly see what timeframe or even the year it was made.

A lot of sellers on the internet do indeed try to push newer examples off as WWII. A lot of the ones with authentic (not the newly applied "WWII") stamps were made in factories that didn't even exist during the war. Thats one way to rule out a lot of them.

The rest, no 100% foolproof way to tell....

Personally, as most of these were used after the war by ex-soldiers & the general population, and were completely worn out; I think that wartime examples are one of the rarest Soviet cloth items.

[vikingraider1]

Thats the trouble with a lot of practicle Soviet items. The civilian population wore them too. Not to mention prisoners of war!

[Deemas]

It's not to hard to explain what is the diferences between war and post war made.
Lining material and internal pocket (war time pieces made without it at all)
The liner color , which is war time is usually plays from white-to grey. But sometimes it can be khaki-but in that case the cloth must be the same as jacket itself. Unfortunately I have not a camera at the moment, I will show it later