Emergency production SMLE sling?

[rayg]

Here's another I believe to be either an Emergency production P14/Enfield sling or else it's a 1939 pattern leather sling I have but I can't find it listed in the Karkee site here under the 1939 pattern leather equipment section.. Ray Karkee Web

The sling in mint/ unused and stamped, Cliff. Walsall 1940, with a 134 over a Broad arrow.

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[Badger]

Had one of those come on this piece in the MKL:

1917/1945 No.1 MkIII* H.T. Sniper Rifle (Short Bracket)


Refer to comment #6...

6. The sling shown mounted on the No.1 MkIII* H.T. Sniper Rifle in this Knowledge Library entry is a WWII version of the ersatz sling, made of folded canvas due to the shortage of webbing. Most but not all of these went to the home guard - the one in the MKL entry here looks particularly nice. B.H.G. Ltd are Barrow, Hepburn, and Gale. This was the WWII version of the name for one of the great British military suppliers - a firm that dates back to early Victorian times and were at times variously called Hepburn Ltd.; Hepburn & Gale; Hepburn, Gale & Ross (aka 'HGR", the most prolific supplier of leather goods, as well as some web, during WWI); and other names as the small military suppliers combined forces to stay alive. ....... (Feedback by "John Thorne")

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Regards,
Doug

[Mk VII]

I've come across various webbing-substitute items made in this rubberised cotton material. Invariably they've hardened over 70+ years.