b_hinch Posted February 18, 2014 Share #51 Posted February 18, 2014 more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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anton67 Posted February 18, 2014 Share #53 Posted February 18, 2014 Really nice cover Bryan. I like it! Good price too. This is the first 53 cover I have personally seen with the diamond EGA. Not saying that it is not legit. In fact like I said it looks good to me. I would have bought it too if I would have seen it. Congratulations!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_hinch Posted February 18, 2014 Share #54 Posted February 18, 2014 Thanks Anton, and I agree - first Blue Anchor cover I have seen with the diamond. Hope it looks good in hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtdorango Posted February 18, 2014 Share #55 Posted February 18, 2014 very nice!......i would like to find one with the sewn diamond and stamped ega....good score and i would have jumped on it too!......i think one of my diamond ega covers is a 53 dated cover too......mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_hinch Posted February 18, 2014 Share #56 Posted February 18, 2014 Would love to see a pic or two of yours, Mike! Thanks for the comments everyone - I guess I did okay! Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pump 150 Posted February 18, 2014 Share #57 Posted February 18, 2014 Nice one, congrats! I have a similar used '53 but the diamonds are sewn opposite the stencil. Really like these diamonds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtdorango Posted February 18, 2014 Share #58 Posted February 18, 2014 Heres an updated family photo of my diamonds......mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pump 150 Posted February 18, 2014 Share #59 Posted February 18, 2014 Nice Mike!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_hinch Posted February 18, 2014 Share #60 Posted February 18, 2014 So that's where they all are! Very nice, indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anton67 Posted February 18, 2014 Share #61 Posted February 18, 2014 Very nice helmets Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 5, 2017 Share #62 Posted November 5, 2017 A nice portrait showing the type, this Marine was in for four years from 1958 till 1962, so as this seems to be an AIT portrait, then one taken in 1958. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap Camouflage Pattern I Posted November 5, 2017 Share #63 Posted November 5, 2017 I think I saw a woodland one on eBay a while back, don't think I have the pic saved anymore but I posted it somewhere on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 12, 2023 Share #64 Posted January 12, 2023 Here's one more, like in 1959, John E. Manning, KIA in Vietnam during the opening hours of Tet Offensive near Da Nang as a 1st Lieutenant Military Police Officer, 1st Military Police Battalion 1st Marine Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crayj Posted January 12, 2023 Share #65 Posted January 12, 2023 I have been following this thread for a long time hoping to see a diamond patch cover similar to mine. I purchased it from a known collector years ago and have never seen another one like it. The cover is completely hand made from OD twill. Thanks, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 13, 2023 Share #66 Posted May 13, 2023 Roger Michael Mathewson in 1959, seeing that so far their are three finds of the Diamond EGA patch on what will be AIT portraits, than perhaps several these specific covers on different steel helmets that had different adjusted sweatbands for proper sizing for different men where used for a bit as props, Boot just puts it on for photo, then takes it off. Mathewson was in for 6 years when he was KIA in 1966. https://ww.virtualwall.org/dm/MathewsonRM01a.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Posted May 13, 2023 Share #67 Posted May 13, 2023 Here is one I had. I sold it at the last SOS. Ronnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickman983 Posted May 23, 2023 Share #68 Posted May 23, 2023 I had been keeping my eyes out for one of these covers for a while and took a chance on one a few weeks ago, finally got it in hand today. This cover was being listed as the "extra" cover to a helmet set with an pretty bad fake frogskin. After not selling and being relisted for a more reasonable price given the bad/limited pictures I decided to take a shot on it and it paid off. It came with a super nice mid WWII Seaman liner, complete with chinstrap, and a super early and nice 1950s contract McCord. I can't be 100% certain the helmet, liner, and cover are original to each other but they all fit together very naturally, whereas I can't get the cover to fit nearly as well on any other lid due to how the chinstrap slots line up. This one is a 1st pattern cover that's got 3 EGAs between the patches and an existing stamp. I'm assuming there's a 4th EGA under the patch on the beach side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 23, 2023 Share #69 Posted October 23, 2023 Carlos Hathcock Vietnam War Sniper, in 1959 at we guess AIT, another Frog Skin wit EGA on Diamond patch. He seems to have been an MP, do not know where Marines gave Military Police Advanced Individual Training then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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