Original Imperial Russian WWI Officer Papakha Wool Hat Cleaned & Complete Antique Guns 32 1/8 inch round barrel

32 1/8 inch round barrel

The brush handle appears to be black hard rubber or Bakelite and is marked RUBBERSET

and minimum hard fighting as their keys to success

who wore a brace of these in shoulder holsters

His name appears in the official roll of the 194th GIR on page 174 of the book Thunder from Heaven: 17th Airborne Division in World War II

Original Imperial Russian WWI Officer Papakha Wool Hat Cleaned & Complete Antique Guns 32 1/8 inch round barrelOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Russian Papakha (Russian: ), also known as astrakhan peruk in English, is a wool hat worn by men throughout the Caucasus and also in uniformed regiments in the region and beyond. The word papakha is of Turkic origin (papak). In Azerbaijani, papaq literally translates to hat. There are two different Russian papakhas. One, called a papaha, is a high fur hat, usually made of karakul sheep skin. The hat has the