March 12, 20251 yr #3 The insignia seem to be in the correct places. Plus I REALLY don’t see any motivation to fake a Korean War era signals uniform.
March 12, 20251 yr #9 9 minutes ago, rhill13 said: Tag read November of 1944 I believe A 1944 ike jacket sized 40. Still not worth $240 but definitely more interesting. Bet the patches were 1944, too. That weird stitching seems to be a WW2 thing.
March 12, 20251 yr Author #10 If I was gonna buy it I’d definitely do some negotiating. I have a soft spot for nicely stitched patches
March 12, 20251 yr #11 4 minutes ago, rhill13 said: If I was gonna buy it I’d definitely do some negotiating. I have a soft spot for nicely stitched patches Tell them they can keep the korean war pins.
March 13, 20251 yr #12 1 hour ago, JohnK83882 said: Tell them they can keep the korean war pins. Let's not be telling people to destroy a piece of history. I think some of you have forgotten that they were issuing Ww2 uniforms up until the early 50s. In fact most Korean war uniforms I have seen are dated either 1945 or 1946. Not to mention not everyone who served in ww2 saw combat or they got in to late to see any real action. Notice the uniform dose have a ww2 victory ribbon. Not to mention most places like antique stores can and regularly kick people out who try stuff like this. It's either you want it as it is or you don't want it. There’s no I want it but I don't what the stuff that's on it and I want it for a cheaper price.
March 13, 20251 yr #13 44 minutes ago, Spartan19 said: Let's not be telling people to destroy a piece of history. I think some of you have forgotten that they were issuing Ww2 uniforms up until the early 50s. In fact most Korean war uniforms I have seen are dated either 1945 or 1946. Not to mention not everyone who served in ww2 saw combat or they got in to late to see any real action. Notice the uniform dose have a ww2 victory ribbon. Not to mention most places like antique stores can and regularly kick people out who try stuff like this. It's either you want it as it is or you don't want it. There’s no I want it but I don't what the stuff that's on it and I want it for a cheaper price. If the pins are part of the actual uniform, I agree with you. But are those stripes regulation to Korean War uniforms? And that X Corps patch has a green edge, so that might make it older. And somebody with real collecting knowledge might have a more concrete opinion about that stitching around the patches which I've seen only in certain WW2 uniforms. I wouldn't put it beyond most antique stores to assemble something like this from whatever they have. I'd say odds are they did. But it looks sharp enough, so why not leave it as is anyway. Just saying the jacket is a WW2 ike jacket and some of the patches probably are. AND it's a size 40, which has more value than the smaller sizes.
March 13, 20251 yr #18 8 hours ago, Nack said: It’s a very nice $30 jacket, most likely in original configuration. I dont know how you got the $30 price point but you are way off. Just because you value it's at so little doesn't mean everyone values it that low. Its probably a $100 uniform with everything on it. And if it's happens to be named or something then maybe $120 to $150 depending on the soldier's service and everything. I regularly see uniforms like this sell all day long between $75 to $150 depending on what they have on them. And some even sell for more then that at times.
March 13, 20251 yr #19 jacket looks fine and I agree with the 30.00 value, I see the 120.00 -150.00 prices too but I'm not seeing them sell for that. I just bought two decent ones lat weekend at a show for 60.00 for both, the best one being a 102nd inf div. with a name.
March 13, 20251 yr #20 16 hours ago, eagle mtn said: The insignia seem to be in the correct places. Plus I REALLY don’t see any motivation to fake a Korean War era signals uniform. The US Army Signal School DUIs are not attached correctly and it's odd them being there in the first place on a X Corps uniform jacket.
March 13, 20251 yr #21 The cross-stitching method of sewing on shoulder sleeve insignia and rank was very popular during this time period as well as at the end of WW2. Occupation Forces in Germany, Austria, Japan took a lot of liberties with their tailoring. What is interesting about this jacket is the 10th Corps patch being sewn for lack of better terms "upside down". In most cases the proper orientation of the 10 Corps patch would be the blue field on the top and the white field on the bottom. Most references to include The Institue of Heraldry show this insignia with the blue field on top. I have several Airborne Ike jackets with this type of cross stitch pattern for soldiers that were on Occupation Duty in Japan (11th Airborne, and 187th ABRCT). This would be a good pick up, but the price is quite high. I agree with Spartan 19 that this is a $100 uniform (plus or minus) and if named possibly a little more. Uniforms are a tough thing to gauge and although I agree somewhat that the possibility that the store added the pins, they had to have known what they were doing since the unit crests and branch of service insignia are both signal corps related, which leads me to believe this uniform came to them intact and unaltered. The signal center and school crests are a bit odd, and are not on the uniform properly, but again this may have been done by the Soldier themselves and not the store, or perhaps the pins were in the pockets of the coat when it arrived at the store and the shop placed the pins back on the4 uniform to show what was included in the sale and high price, we may never know.... Not all antique stores embellish or add items to uniforms to increase sales (just my humble opinion) ... I strongly disagree that pins should be removed, again just my thoughts.. Leigh
March 13, 20251 yr #22 4 hours ago, Rakkasan187 said: I have several Airborne Ike jackets with this type of cross stitch pattern for soldiers that were on Occupation Duty in Japan (11th Airborne, and 187th ABRCT). Yeah. It was my guess that they were done by seamstresses hired for this kind of thing overseas. I was guessing the UK but you might be right.
March 13, 20251 yr #23 29 minutes ago, JohnK83882 said: Yeah. It was my guess that they were done by seamstresses hired for this kind of thing overseas. I was guessing the UK but you might be right. My Uncle was with the 11th Airborne and 187th in Japan and Korea and he did his own cross stitching on his uniform so yes, I am right... Leigh
March 13, 20251 yr #24 Since it's so distinctive I'm guessing there's some memo telling them to do it this way or maybe it broke out as a trend among the guys in one base.
March 13, 20251 yr #25 2 minutes ago, JohnK83882 said: Since it's so distinctive I'm guessing there's some memo telling them to do it this way or maybe it broke out as a trend among the guys in one base. Most I've seen were one-offs done by soldiers who were bored and had plenty of thread to use on their way home. It's a nice Korean War Ike jacket. I'd ask $75 for it if I was selling and be happy with $60.
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