Measures 7" x 10", laminated soft cover, 142 pp., self-published, the third and final version of this book (as promised by the author), printed on high-quality paper with hundreds of high-resolution photos, and exhaustive descriptions written by a collector for collectors, in a language used by collectors, with Russian words and letter codes carefully translated into English and explained in English.

Brand-new never-used condition.

It is hard to imagine a serious collector of Soviet visor caps, uniforms, and militaria in general, without this reference source. Not only

Measures 7" x 10", laminated soft cover, 142 pp., self-published, the third and final version of this book (as promised by the author), printed on high-quality paper with hundreds of high-resolution photos, and exhaustive descriptions written by a collector for collectors, in a language used by collectors, with Russian words and letter codes carefully translated into English and explained in English.

Brand-new never-used condition.

It is hard to imagine a serious collector of Soviet visor caps, uniforms, and militaria in general, without this reference source. Not only does it provide comprehensive and totally reliable systematized information on the most obscure part of Soviet visor hats - manufacturer's labels and interior stamps, but it also has a section on how to spot fakes among them, and does it in the language used by collectors. It is also noteworthy that even though the book focuses entirely on visor hats, some abbreviations and codes in these labels and stamps may be encountered on other items of military headgear, adding yet another facet to the value of this book as a cross-reference source.

To summarize, if you collect Soviet hats and do not have this book to guide you, you open yourself to potential risk. There are many fakes, manufactured as early as the 1990s, well-made, some of them well-worn, some of them very expensive.

Randall Stewart is one of the world's best experts and collectors of Soviet militaria. For twenty-one years, he served as a U.S. Army Military Intelligence and Foreign Area Officer focusing on the Soviet military, eventually becoming the senior Russian armed forces analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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