MikeyB-17
Well-Known Member
Today we visited the fascinating Geevor Tin Mine on the North coast of the extreme West of Cornwall, about an hour from me. Geevor was a working mine until 1990, with workings extending several miles out under the Atlantic. It's now a museum and the mine buildings are preserved, including the miners' Dry where they changed and kept their stuff. This place has been left pretty much as it was when the last shift clocked out. In there are all the miners' lockers, and hanging on the door of one locker I saw what was obviously a field jacket:-
I examined it more closely, and got more interested when I found the zipper box had Crown on it. No puller but it had the big teeth similar to those on 40's/50's nylon flight jackets-I had one on my Buzz B-15D.
I took it off the door and took a snap of it:-
Then I had a quck try-on-it fitted me too.
Question is what is it? Pretty beat up, no label, a small tag, very faded but I could make out something about 'Field Jacket' and 'Cotton Sateen'. It had internal buttons for a liner, and no zip-up hood. It looks to my inexpert eye like an M-43, but did they have zips, or would the zip be retro-fitted? I'm not big on field jackets, I know an M-65 when I see one, but anything earlier is beyond me.
I examined it more closely, and got more interested when I found the zipper box had Crown on it. No puller but it had the big teeth similar to those on 40's/50's nylon flight jackets-I had one on my Buzz B-15D.
I took it off the door and took a snap of it:-
Then I had a quck try-on-it fitted me too.
Question is what is it? Pretty beat up, no label, a small tag, very faded but I could make out something about 'Field Jacket' and 'Cotton Sateen'. It had internal buttons for a liner, and no zip-up hood. It looks to my inexpert eye like an M-43, but did they have zips, or would the zip be retro-fitted? I'm not big on field jackets, I know an M-65 when I see one, but anything earlier is beyond me.