RichieC

How come Stoo?

I believe that the winged wheel part of the regulation is only for officers, so I feel that you can get away with completing your cap with a 30MM star to create an EM example.

It is simple solution: http://www.du.edu/langlit/russian/russify.html#pc For keyboard: http://www.russianstickers.com/

Agreed... Superb collection Rick and very nice scans/photos also. The field boards in post 6 are extremely interesting. It is only the second time that I have seen piped six-sided officer's field boards.

Actually, Tankist ones are easier to find... Really.

You need to find a pair of crossed cannon insignia to adorn those boards Doc...

Photo7 Stamp (not one of those fake ebay either IMO) faintly reads 41r on the lower right. No matter if those collar tabs defy the correct or not; I really don't feel that this one should be altered from it's present state, dear associates.

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I truly feel that these tabs have been affixed for a time a lot longer than I have been alive. Without exactly dating myself, that is a long time. I really do not want to change them. The attaching cotton thread is very delicate and breaks at the slightest tug, and there are no signs of holes for the metal button loops, so I think that the "old soldier" attached them himself in the field at the time of regulation change in 1943, or soon thereafter, and did not have any appropriate buttons. As a matter of fact, the two buttons that secure the end of the shoulder boards do not match, and are secured in place with the same thread as the tabs... The coat is a pre-1943 model, but I see no outline of stitching on the collar from the earlier type of tabs, but with such a rough weave of material, who is to say that they were ever there to begin with. I strongly feel that I should leave this this one as it is...

You are probably right-on Stoo. Just last night, after I posted it here of course like some kind of big shot, I showed this particular cap to some men in Russia. There is one who seems to be pretty up-and-up on Civil stuff. He wrote that the cap itself is A-OK, but the wings are an add on, and the star is not in its correct place. At least thst is how I understood it... Perhaps our own Takc or new member Sergey can translate his words more accurately than I (?); Сама фуражка подлинная. Но она может быть как начала 50х, так и конца 70х. В этот период расцветка фуражек была одинаковая. НО вышитая эмблема "колесо с крыльями" на тулье фуражки - не с этой фуражки, она ставилась на ЖД фуражках других периодов. А также нашивалась на груди кителя ЖД в 70-80х. Звездочка точно никогда не носилась на околыше фуражки ЖД.

Thanks men... This litttle quirk has been semi-bothering me for years. However, when I aquired the coat, this is how it came to me. The only thing I added was the shoulder boards. Right or wrong, I did not want to change around the collar tabs and add the appropriate buttons, as they had been attached like that for what seemed FOREVER. I'll snap a close up and post it later so you can see what I am implying.

Another фуражка; This one post 1955 with a very oddful, but interesting winged-wheel insignia.

I have never seen one actually for sale myself.... The one that I have shown I aquired by chance in a generous swap with our very own Stoo Belaruski.

Beautiful & wonderful thing Takc... Who was the former owner Admiral?

Wow, these are extremely sexy!

A few more different variations of Railways stars. These are courtesy of The Cap Star Guru, Denis R:

Stoo Star

Button5 13MM