1945 Royal Armoured Corps Black Beret

A 1945 dated 'KANGOL WEAR LIMITED' black beret as used by the Royal Armoured Corps, the liner bears wonderful crisp makers details and an equally good WD acceptance stamp with the ''Z'' letter code denoting year of manufacture as 1945.
The beret size is stated as 7 1/8 but is actually slightly smaller due to shrinkage (approx.6 3/4), there are tell tale signs of being washed in more recent times as the internal leather tab covering the grommets has shrunk and gone hard, this beret retains the typical 'Kangol' single thread running round the internal circumference and remains intact, leather edge trim is in excellent condition,.
The black wool body retains very good colour and far darker than seen in some of the images, there is much moth grazing present especially around the leather trim but no holes, the beret actually looks better in the hand (as they say) as the images don't do it justice, still a great display piece.

Code: 51240