John Lever
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I think it's a repro -
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WW2-WWII-M-445-SH ... 286.c0.m14
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WW2-WWII-M-445-SH ... 286.c0.m14
hacker said:It certainly is.....and the seller stated that.
I have owned two of these so they were made. One of them had a stone wash sort of finish like this one.Falcon_52 said:This jacket is really confusing me. I don't recall the 1990s Willis & Geiger company offering the M-445. I went back through my catalogs and couldn't find it in there.
Could this be a jacket from "The Few"? It seems much more accurate than the repro W & G M-444.
Noel
These w+G repro's are ok if you can get them at the right price. The way things are at the moment, prices can only fall.hacker said:The problem that exists is that sellers who are not collectors will rightfully call old clothing "vintage" but we tend to look at that description as meaning original military issue . The jacket you posted that sold on eBay is certainly a reproduction, in fact as far as I know Scoville zippers didn't even exist in the 1940's! but the fact it is over 20 years old I guess makes it a vintage piece of sorts. Now if the seller was to state that the jacket is an original WWII issue jacket then either he's just plain ignorant or dishonest. No doubt many listings are a bit misleading but that remains one of the pitfalls of buying online. IMHO!
100 % agree.
Hacker