at the 7 valley railway event, I purchaced a small pack, but it has a loop underneath the buckles, and a fastener between the l and r slrap fixings, does anyone know what this is???
Is it green webbing?
If so sounds like it could be a Nato one-cannot remember exactly but either Dutch or Belgian.
If it's got ABL stamped on the inside, it'll be Belgian.
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no stamps on it, badly blancoed, (i can scrape it all off with a knife.) and brass fittings.
A few pics might help.
This is my weird one that im sure is Belgian or Dutch.
Fittings are black painted brass.
There are some ink stamped markings inside the flap but too faint to read.
Sorry for the crap pics that shows it looking 3 different colours!!!!!
Buy the fitting and the size of it compared to your hands, it's a large pack - and by the looks of it, it's a post-war pattern; The extra loop on the top flap and the ones on the sides is a post war thing, to allow other items of equipment to be strapped on (like rolled up sheets/bedding)*. The two loops on the bottom are standard, they're for fitment of the L-straps - which are the correct shoulder-straps to use to carry it.
*As an aside; the small packs I have seen with a top flap loop, usually are factory fitted or old stock which have been hand modified, and are a buckled loop - probably for carrying a spade like as carried on '58patt webbing.
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
