Leather

Roadkill · 11-24-2004, 10:11 AM

Something which comes up occasionally is the determining if a holster is genuine. There are many factors which are beyond my capacity to fathom to determmine originality. I'll throw this out in general reference leather items in the Wehrmacht in WWII: Leather was a major logistics high demand item. It would for the time have had the same importance as perhaps plastic would have in a modern army. My point is that production would have been extremely important and new items would have been produced up to the end of the war. This is my short list of essential items for the German WWII military:

rifle slings
canteen cap connectors
bayonet frogs
Y harnesses
back packs
holsters
individual soldier belts
harness for horses/wagons (50% of transport was horse drawn)
helmet liners
boots
shoes
cartridge pouches
equipment tie down straps

anything else?

rk

11-24-2004, 10:11 AM	#1
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,634 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	Leather Something which comes up occasionally is the determining if a holster is genuine. There are many factors which are beyond my capacity to fathom to determmine originality. I'll throw this out in general reference leather items in the Wehrmacht in WWII: Leather was a major logistics high demand item. It would for the time have had the same importance as perhaps plastic would have in a modern army. My point is that production would have been extremely important and new items would have been produced up to the end of the war. This is my short list of essential items for the German WWII military: rifle slings canteen cap connectors bayonet frogs Y harnesses back packs holsters individual soldier belts harness for horses/wagons (50% of transport was horse drawn) helmet liners boots shoes cartridge pouches equipment tie down straps anything else? rk