Soviet aeroflot visor cap

[seb16trs]

I picked up this visor cap in Beligum this week-end.

It is what I believe to be an aeroflot flight captain visor cap.

It is very well constructed, everything is symetrical and wellsewn. The visor cap is made of cardboard, with a rather matish black paint (while satinate on other cardboard visors), laurel branchs are correctly and symetricaly fixed.

The surprise is the general-type leather sweatband. This is why I played the game by buying this thing. The liner is made of general satin too; the diamnond sweatband is marked of the famous Moscow fabric, and is slghtly used. All is correctly sewn with the same thread. Everything is irreprochable.

Second surprise, the 2 chincord butons, which are of the army type, no aeroflot type. They are made of 2-pieces of metal, 1970 dated.

It would be quite easy to find aeroflot butons... but do you believe I found quite a neat kind of fake? Or this fabric is really genuine for a senior aeroflot officer?

many thanks by advance for yours opinions...

[seb16trs]

1981 dated.

Edited October 28, 2009 by seb16trs

[seb16trs]

fancy butons...

[seb16trs]

everything denotes a 1980ies areoflot cap...

[Guest Rick Research]

The cap is dated 1981 on the sweat shield, so ANY 1970 buttons are incorrect.

[seb16trs]

hello Rick, they could take any botton they wanted in the stock... but I agree with you, the buttons years generally tend to be the closest possible to the visor cap date.

[Grentztruppen]

Frankly, I would not even worry about the buttons. I know they are incorrect for this particular branch of service, but the hat is nice! Nice find...