Hi,
Did some additional scanning...
The image is big, but it shows lots of detail.
Just to see it all at once, I copied it and placed the link to the large picture here:
http://home.concepts.nl/~vlimmere/p08/lanyardhook.jpg
Hope that is okay, Ed
The leather 'lip' is exactly 8 cm in length on one side and 8.2 cm in length on the other. I can't make out the material that was used to stitch it, but the stitches clearly show up on the photo. The metal all looks solid steel, without any plating.
One other thing I noticed is a layer of cellophane-like material, sandwiched between the leather lips and the loop material. It looks like the material is used to strengthen the stitching.
Does anyone have any photo material of Portugese and/or Dutch KM soldiers wearing the lanyard loops? I'd love to compare those two.
Gerben