Indeed, this is a very rare jacket.
The zip has two little horns at the top, just like the zip on the SAT and1729 contracts. This puts the jacket in the same time period as these. A front photo of the zip would confirm this.
Not enough attention is being paid to the humble pocket snap.
This jacket appears to use the same snap for the collar and pocket. This is unusual as the pocket snap was commonly bigger than the collar snap and dimpled.
Original 1729 pocket snap.
This seems to indicate that Shawn's jacket predates the 1729 contract. If so, it does not leave many options for what the jacket could be.
Apart from the missing label it is difficult to identify this a Werber 32-6225 contract because no one has ever seen one.
How would it be possible to identify a 32-6225 jacket?
I think we’re mixing together two different items.
Shaun’s jacket isn’t a government contract, if only based on the original and intact fabric lined pockets. Suppliers may be different, at the same company, for civilian vs commercial products (
like the SAT civilian version in post #85 using fabric lined pockets and a different lining compared to the military version). Non-dimpled snaps were used for a couple decades and we haven’t seen the front of the zipper yet, so it's hard to define a date range with so little to go on. Dating it based on a government contract trait for a civilian version is like putting square pegs in round holes. I just wouldn’t read too much into it.
Based on the declassified government A-2 specification documents the Werber 32-6225 had buttoned pocket flaps. With that said, if we found an original jacket with an intact label we’d know for certain. Actually, unless we found an intact label we’ll never know for certain.
Put another way, we know a SAT civilian version had fabric lined pockets. Wouldn't we think SAT would make a snap pocket version? Is thet really enough to go on?