Leather

Roadkill · 11-24-2004, 09:11 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

Roadkill · 11-24-2004, 09:16 AM

yeah, clean that up for me Ed. I screwed that up. Too much coffee.

rk

John Sabato · 11-24-2004, 09:46 AM

You can add dress hat brims to the list... and small equipment transport cases. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

George Anderson · 11-24-2004, 12:12 PM

Dress hat brims were sometimes made of "vulcanized fibre". By 1945 equipment belts and bayo frogs were often made of heavy canvas. These last items are often identified as Afrikakorps, this was not really the case.

11-24-2004, 09:11 AM	#1
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 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

11-24-2004, 09:46 AM	#3
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,153 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,304 Times in 1,096 Posts	You can add dress hat brims to the list... and small equipment transport cases. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*

11-24-2004, 09:16 AM	#2
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,632 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	yeah, clean that up for me Ed. I screwed that up. Too much coffee. rk

11-24-2004, 12:12 PM	#4
George Anderson Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VA Posts: 3,592 Thanks: 1,773 Thanked 2,528 Times in 787 Posts	Dress hat brims were sometimes made of "vulcanized fibre". By 1945 equipment belts and bayo frogs were often made of heavy canvas. These last items are often identified as Afrikakorps, this was not really the case.