UN beret

I picked This Un beret and badge up on ebay for £5.21 including shipping
the label although faint reads
100% wool
Dry Clean Only
Size 3
there is no makers mark
the badge is in exelent condition no chips to the enamel, the beret is quite faded and it has never had a liner although there has been a stifener stitched in the front this has been replaced by a bit of green plastic on the whole not a bad peice.

Nice, I have a few of theese badges but sadly only 1 UN Beret.

Theese are wuite common here in Canada however, because our Military does ALOT of peacekeeping operations.

Hi Graham.

I like your UN beret Mate very nice, I only have one of these in my collection, this one is a New Zealand issue beret, and I was very lucky as I only paid a pound for it from a car boot sale.

Hi Gary
Nice and only a quid steal mine was about 5.50 off evilbay so not too bad

loski wrote:Hi Gary
Nice and only a quid steal mine was about 5.50 off evilbay so not too bad

Thanks Graham, I was going to buy one off ebay, from S Frankish, who is fairly cheap.

I got this one over this weekend gone, bought a load of kit of a stall holder, and this was part of it

I had one, but it was misappropriated.I'll bet, however, that that NZ wool is finer than most. Sharp!

sh4pak wrote:I had one, but it was misappropriated.I'll bet, however, that that NZ wool is finer than most. Sharp!

Thanks for looking,misapropriated do you mean it was stolen..that's a bummer,and yep this is in pretty good shape, I'm going to try and work where it might have been used through NZ UN missions

Well, *stolen* is a strong word. It was left at a friend's house, and he just never felt a strong desire to return it, and after a while, I didn't have an overwhelming urge to get on his case about it... so... meh.

(I use softer language for situations such as these).

And-- good luck with the job. Exciting places and interesting people... always a good thing.

Hi Garry
I have bought from S Frankish and his prices are good and he ships at warp factor 20

sh4pak wrote:Well, *stolen* is a strong word. It was left at a friend's house, and he just never felt a strong desire to return it, and after a while, I didn't have an overwhelming urge to get on his case about it... so... meh.

(I use softer language for situations such as these).

And-- good luck with the job. Exciting places and interesting people... always a good thing.

Yep, I like your way of putting it across ,with the softer language , I assume you would use less softer language face to face.I know where your coming from Mate!!!!

loski wrote:Hi Garry
I have bought from S Frankish and his prices are good and he ships at warp factor 20

Yeah Mate, I am not plugging him as such but he has good stuff, at reasonable prices, and delivery is quick, a credit to ebay really


S Frankish you owe me some commission, my friend

Just found my beret stash(50++) and amongst them are 2 unknown nation UN berets,very old and well used!!!!

The beret with the badge has a strange circular pattern to the crown,as if it was made by being spun-is this common i wonder to any particular Nation/Country as to help ID it?

I have a reproduction WWII Canadian Airborne Beret with the same circle design... odd.