Ser-g Wrote:okay i did ofcourse check the undertheredstar.com.
there is indeed nothing on there about this cap.
so as far as i understand this cap could be real , but what it is nobody seems to know?
could it be a fake produced in a large quantity and realeased at once ?
ser-g
ps, on the big E they call it an militiaman ceremonial
There was a mmilitia cap with white top, but it had standard red band.
I doubt it's a fake - no one knows what it is to imitate and, at least here, in the east, they are relatively cheap (e.g. m69 KGB cap may go for about 25euro, so this, as a rare variant could go for 50euro let's say. But they go at best for about 15euro). They are of late manufacture and some may even be early post91, but are not fakes. I think, that it may by some militia special branch developed in the late days of the SU - like tax militia or something,altough it's just a guess.
In fact,there is something similar at undertheredstar.com - check aeroflot. But my friend made a comparison of the two caps and they are not the same...
btw. I have a gray one and it has a small label - typical for late soviet and 90's headwear with Zarnica factory in Moscow as manufacturer. Yet, militia caps from after 1991 have arificial leather visor. My cap seems to be a pre91 manufacture.
