10-07-2012, 06:32 PM
Today I had the opportunity to take the uniuform in hand.
It was a "good news, bad news" situation.
The "good news" was that inspecting the uniform close-up confirmed for me that it is an original uniform, showing all of the appropriate characteristics of construction, age, and wear that I have come to expect from looking at Soviet uniforms over the last 15 years.
The Marshal of Engineering shoulder boards look nice, with the engineering insignia done in a gold thread, though I don't have enough experience with Marshal's service uniform boards to say much beyond that.
The buttons are dated "67".
The straight leg trousers are also quite nice, showing a degree of wear that is commensurate with the jacket.
The "bad news" came from the fact that the ribbon set was obviously held on to the uniform with some glue while it was being sewn on to the jacket. It seemed to me that an outline of the original ribbon set was visible on the jacket. I do not know how easy it will be for the next owner to remove the glue residue from the jacket once the fake ribbon set is removed.
I wil try to take a few better photos of the boards and I'll post them in the uniform section, since this thread was moved from "Uniforms" to the section where I now found it.
It was a "good news, bad news" situation.
The "good news" was that inspecting the uniform close-up confirmed for me that it is an original uniform, showing all of the appropriate characteristics of construction, age, and wear that I have come to expect from looking at Soviet uniforms over the last 15 years.
The Marshal of Engineering shoulder boards look nice, with the engineering insignia done in a gold thread, though I don't have enough experience with Marshal's service uniform boards to say much beyond that.
The buttons are dated "67".
The straight leg trousers are also quite nice, showing a degree of wear that is commensurate with the jacket.
The "bad news" came from the fact that the ribbon set was obviously held on to the uniform with some glue while it was being sewn on to the jacket. It seemed to me that an outline of the original ribbon set was visible on the jacket. I do not know how easy it will be for the next owner to remove the glue residue from the jacket once the fake ribbon set is removed.
I wil try to take a few better photos of the boards and I'll post them in the uniform section, since this thread was moved from "Uniforms" to the section where I now found it.
