SAS Beige beret
 

Just noticed that one of the two beige coloured berets that appeared on ebay last year has turned up on a dealers site recently.
I can't find the original thread that was on the forum about the two berets at the time that they were for sale but it looks like one of them has just been sold on.

Cheers

Arnhem

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...light=bleached

I notice it is already reserved.

I notice the seller commented in post 48 that they were fakes......funny that.

I'm not taking any sides but if the one just sold is one of the pair that was previously on ebay, then the cap badge has been changed

It looks like Jack (jdr) referred to his own berets for stating in post 48 that the berets on EBay were fake. The one he just sold was apparently from his own collection.

isnt the seller recently banned off here for selling fakes?

SAS beige beret
 

If it isn't one of the ones that were sold on ebay I'll be amazed. I did save all the photos of both berets on my computer and they were on the same glass heads if I remember rightly. I'll check later in case I'm doing him wrong.

Arnhem

They look very different to me, right or wrong!

Beret in question was recently sold at Auction by C&T - hammer price of GBP1350.00

However - I believe the original seller was the same seller as the two berets that were sold on Ebay...

A private seller or a dealer?

Is this the same beret as the eBay one? Bit confused and unsure as to what the ‘beret in question’ is here?

Correct the beret subject to this thread beret hammered 1300 at C&T. It has a different badge as the one on Ebay but construction and features of the beret are very similar. Now it could be the seller on Ebay had a 3rd one or the badge was changed.

I saw the beret on C&T and for making a considerable investment it did not tick my boxes and also had feeling it could be same source as Ebay.

Cheers

JB

From the original thread.

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Further to my above post I don’t even think these are SAS berets. The brown leather sweatband gives this away. It should always be black leather.

I thought the one just sold has a brown sweatband.....

So, I am definitely confused as well on the tan SAS beret subject matter. Are the leather headbands supposed to be tan or black??
The one that is reserved on a website appears to be tan at first glance, however closer observations it appears to be black leather underneath and tan leather dye applied over top. Also, a wartime studio portrait of a SAS trooper. Would you say this is a black headband?

Correct me if im wrong, but this beret is on Chairborne Militaria ?
Andy

Andy, this is the one marked as reserved on Chairborne.