HEADDRESS SHOW CASE

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INTRODUCTION
Hi Everyone
I have started this show case off for you all to show and tell about those special items of headdress that some of us have that sit in their special place oftern in a closed hiddern box out of sight and never getting any limelight that they deserve .
AND IF YOU LIKE THE ITEM THAT PEOPLE SHOW USE THE THANKS POST THIS WILL ENCOURAGE OTHER TO LIST BITS .

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This lovely example of a WWII London Scotish glengarry is 1939 dated has a silver plated pin backed London scotish badge to the front with a nice WD R (1939 ) stamp to the inside , There is no owners name sadly. Its size is about a 7 .

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This example is 1939 dated and made by JALPOTEX again it has a WD R stamp it has more wear to it than the other example listed but is named and the bit I like the most it has the chaps thumb print to the center of the badge which is nickle silver hollow cast example with a steel spilt pin sercuring it which has been on the glengarry a very long time .

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Well where do I start with this one its is what it is with provanace ( not shown ) I purchased this in 2014 at the War and Peace revial at Folkstone with a quanity of Richard Todds post war clothing and documents at 22:30 hrs on the 1st sunday from a freind who did his house clearance .
Its has a faint WD stamp for 1943 very faint KANGOL WEAR LTD makers mark a diamond shape behind where the badge is worn can be clearly seen with ghosting to the front one I cherish and like a lot .

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This iconic peace of headdress oftern referd to as sandies was purchased by a freind at a carboot sale and he sold this one and the other 2 to me sadly no names came with them . I started collecting militaria back in 1982 arfter joining the ACF a freind told me about abook to read in the school library THE PHANTOM MAJOR I got it out and ended up keeping the book for about 4 months reading it quite a lot and always wanted to find one of the berets that was mentiond in the book it took 32 years to find one . this example has a late war style badge to the side mounted as oftern can be seen at a slant in the war time pictures of the SAS wearing them .

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WWII economy version crash helmet for DR's. If anyone knows what the red band is for please enlighten me. The seller had it as MP but a friend who is ex MP and has published on the subject said he did not think it was. The B&W photo shows the two versions of the pulp DR helmet made during WWII.