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    You still smarting about not having a crate? :-)

    Chris

    Sell me one and I love you forever and forget what people say about you. :P re a jacket I'll take some pics tomorrow I'm a busy puppy today.

    Cheers

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    Chris,

    I was watching that one too. A very nice example. I've had the trousers for years, but the jacket has escaped me. You're fortunate that I was broke when the auction ended. ;)

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    It definitely is a nice one. I was a bit surprised when I saw the final price, but the chance to get one only comes along once every year or two. Not that many survived. In 1992 I paid $300 for a nicely B.A. marked Radfahrer Umhang and I think that would fall into about the same category of scarceness (today). You add for inflation between then and now and you have about what you paid.

    I have a mint pair of Drillich trousers that are marked to a field artillery unit. I also have a mint Drillich navy work outfit with trousers and a collarless shirt.

    Chip

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    After reading this topic again, I noticed both models were just called drillich jacket untill now. The Germans named them differently it seems...

    The NCO's Drillichrock is slightly different than the enlisted man’s Drillichjacke.The Drillichrock is longer, it has a Waffenrock type rear with two buttons in the middle and all the buttons are made of polished tomback or nickel (as on the corresponding field gray tunic). It has a narrow piping in the state colours around the small standing collar.

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    Chris,

    Regarding the material of the Drillichanzug, Kraus describes it as "rohgrauem Leinen-Drillich". He says that with repeated washings the color became bleached out. They started experimenting with a feldgrau shade of gray on a material like Feldrock lining cloth in the summer of 1913, but with no outcome due to the start of the war.

    Chip

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    Chris,

    That, obviously, is not Drillich, but rather a cotton Sommeruniform. Originally ordered for Heimat use, due to the wool shortage, they were hit the same year they were approved with a cotton shortage. When the situation improved in 1917, they were issued to troops serving in the Balkans, Ukraine and the Crimea. I have a period photo of it being worn in Turkey and it was most likely issued in the rest of the Middle East as well.

    Chip

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    Gents

    Jacket I've never owned a pr of the grey fatigue trousers just never happened, recently the C-guild had a pr but I was too late,,, my Navy set is gone years ago unfortunately. I haven't had this tunic long won it on ebay.de, the two rear buttons are missing I think.

     

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