Is This A Military Jacket?

[eniksleestack]

Hey military experts, here's another mystery garment from the thrift stores:

It looks to me like a naval item. Thin cotton/ poplin-type material with very utilitarian buttons and unrefined twine-like drawstring. Has an oversized hood.

Only markings are a crown (British? European?) and a number 2.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[thunderw21]

Looks to be some kind of a winter camo smock to me. Don't know about the crown stamp.

 

[GHQ1]

Crown looks Dutch to me

Dutch Queen Wilhelmina

As a runner up . . . I'd say Sweden . . which used a single crown until the early 1940's

2 is most likely some uniform size analogue

 

[Spitfire]

Not sweden - they use to have 3 crowns together. Norway - maybe?

 

[Djupis]

I have never heard of Norwegian military items being marked with simply a crown. More likely it would have been marked by either the King's Emblem or a Lion (nowadays they are simply marked with a plain shield).

But I'm just guessing really [huh]

 

[DutchIndo]

It's definately Snow Camo, it is made oversized to fit over winter clothing. It is used as a Camo shell it's not supposed to be insulated.

 

[BellyTank]

Yes.

Yes, it is the top half of a military snow over suit.


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[Hillocks]

I've got a female battle dress with the same crown stamped in it and that one's Danish (if that's how you spel it)

 

[BellyTank]

Spel wat? Danish?

I think you could be right.


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[Spitfire]

This is the official "Danish Royal crown" It looks a little bit like it.
On the other hand, IF it is danish, it must be for use in Greenland - where we have navy "dogsledge patrols" operating. I have never ever heard of snow camouflage for soldiers in Denmark. [huh]
It never gets that cold... And we never fight wars in the wintertime

 

[eniksleestack]

Thanks for the info guys -- I actually thought it might Danish when I first saw it.

 

[Spitfire]

Dutch Queen Wilhelmina

As a runner up . . . I'd say Sweden . . which used a single crown until the early 1940's

2 is most likely some uniform size analogue

Forgot about the single crown in Sweden - but the crown looks much different. (Would have posted a picture - but "the bucket" is out of order at the mo.)

Being a dane I just can not believe we have snowcamouflage. Never heard of it.[huh]

 

[BellyTank]

Dutch Queen Wilhelmina

As a runner up . . . I'd say Sweden . . which used a single crown until the early 1940's

Sweden's "tre kronor"(three crowns) has been used as a national symbol for many hundreds of years but some small amount of research shows that pre-war, the Swedish may have used a single crown. Here is a stamp on a piece of Swedish War Materiel, showing the date, 1922 and a single crown.
I have a 1939 dated Swedish jacket with a "3 crowns" stamp.

So, we could now make a slightly educated guess, that the snow over-blouse in question, could be pre-war Swedish.


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