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Old 26-10-20, 12:24 PM
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Default Green Howards FS side cap: fake or copy?

Hello everybody! I have recently purchased a Coloured FS side cap badged to the Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment, AKA Green Howards. On receiving it I have started to nurture some doubts about genuinity of the item. Plastic buttons imitating anodized metal with a KC, cloth label and size paper tag in centimeters are scarcely compatible with a production in the 1940s, therefore a very well made copy? A stage prop? Whats your opinion, gents?
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Old 26-10-20, 12:33 PM
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Looks good to me.

Worn upto 2006 so could be only 14 years old legitimately, Certainly not WW2 though.

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Old 26-10-20, 12:37 PM
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The badge and buttons bear a coronet rather than kings crown, the cap is post WWII, the sizing shown in imperial and metric.
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Old 26-10-20, 02:47 PM
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And the buttons are anodized. A nice cap with a good quality bullion badge. I would date it to the 60s or 70s.

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Old 26-10-20, 06:46 PM
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Original post WW2 Officers FS Cap Pre dates the 2007 Amalgamations and Formation of the Yorkshire Regiment.
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Old 27-10-20, 11:38 AM
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very nice cap, probably dating to the early to mid 70's which is when makers started to use metric sizing afaik
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