Help I’d this Overcoat

[1930artdeco]

Hi All,

I just got this OD overcoat hoping to use it for some period clothing with my car. It looks like an interwar jacket but the buttons are not correct. There is no makers tag in it other than the triangle sticking where I think it was. So I am thinking (hoping) it is a civilian type jacket of the 20/30’s. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Fastuni]

Looks surely like a Belgian Army 1940's-1950's overcoat.
Buttons have been replaced, probably to "civilianize" it.

 

[Peacoat]

Looks surely like a Belgian Army 1940's-1950's overcoat.
Buttons have been replaced, probably to "civilianize" it.

Agreed as to the buttons.

 

[1930artdeco]

Dang! Fastuni, you were right. Slight differences but it matches. Well it was shot in the dark and I missed. So I guess I will wear it day to day or sell it. Thank you all.

mike

 

[Fastuni]

Dang! Fastuni, you were right. Slight differences but it matches. Well it was shot in the dark and I missed. So I guess I will wear it day to day or sell it. Thank you all.

mike

Correction: after looking it up I'd rather say it is a Canadian Army coat from WW2 worn as a civilian coat after demobilization.

 

[1930artdeco]

Fastuni, either way it is not really what I was looking for originally. But thank you for the info.

mike

 

[Seth Byrnes]

I believe it's none of the above, it's a Greek 1950s overcoat to my eyes.

 

[Seth Byrnes]

https://www.militarysupplyhouse.com/overcoatsf3.htm

https://britisharmysurplus.com/greek-great-coat

The Greek coats have a really strange resemblance to all of the allied coats. They have the tailoring of the commonwealth jackets but the ligne buttons of some of the later US uniform items!

I see a lot of these with commonwealth buttons stitched onto them, sellers (or maybe just re-enactors) trying to pass them off as the other.

 

[Seth Byrnes]

Turn the pockets inside out and have a look on both sides of 'em.