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pzivh43 Supporting Member of TMP06 Oct 2024 3:57 a.m. PST

Trying to finish some Polish cavalry. The images I find on the web shows cavalry with various colored cap bands on their czapka. I can't find what the different colors meant. One source says colors indicate different arms of service, but none listed are cavalry.

Any thoughts from the hive mind?

John Armatys06 Oct 2024 4:16 a.m. PST

Knotel, Knotel and Sieg's "Uniforms of the World" (Arms and Armour Press 1980) (a must have book that gives the _basics_ for everything from 1710 – 1937) has a table on page 351. Cap band showed arm of service for all arms except the cavalry, where it showed the regiment.

If you let me know which regiment(s) you are painting I can look them up.

pzivh43 Supporting Member of TMP06 Oct 2024 5:19 a.m. PST

John,

So, each cav regiment had a different color? I'm not painting particular regiments, so no need for more research.

Many thanks!

John Armatys06 Oct 2024 5:30 a.m. PST

No, some colours are repeated – carmine, yellow and white all turn up several times, pink twice and red-brown only once. Regiments also had different colours on the lance pennant shown on the collar (if you are painting big figures and are fussy).

Hardback copies of Knotel, Knotel and Sieg are available on eBay for about £10.00 GBP inc post in the UK (just over half what I paid for my new copy about 40 years ago…). This copy in the US is dirt cheap auction
but with v. expensive postage across the Atlantic, it might be worth checking to see what he wants for postage in the USA.

Personal logo Saber6 Supporting Member of TMP Fezian06 Oct 2024 7:36 a.m. PST

Great book. My first source since 1985 ($5.00 at Crown Books)

pzivh43 Supporting Member of TMP06 Oct 2024 8:58 a.m. PST

Thanks again, John.

Martin Rapier07 Oct 2024 2:09 a.m. PST

Thanks for the tip John, a nice shiny (well, old and battered) Hardback copy is on its way to me right now. It can join my copy of 'Modern' Combat Uniforms published in 1980ish which includes such hilarities as Bundeswehr Combat Frogmen.

The paperbacks are even cheaper.

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