I have one that came on a Long Branch "T" - The crown may be a clue to its origin.
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I have one that came on a Long Branch "T" - The crown may be a clue to its origin.
Could it be Finnish? I know they copied British P37 type webbing and uniforms after WWII and marked them with a crown. Or like was said, a commercial product.
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I would expect that an issue item, even with today's equipment, there would be a broad arrow mark and a makers code (not a symbol that is hard to list on paperwork).
Page Belting Co. in New hampshire was this countries largest supplier of industrial leather belting at a time when all industrial machinery was run by overhead line shafts and leather belting and is still in business today. They are the only leather products suppler I have been able to find with the name PAGE. There were many companies here filling British contracts during both wars and PAGE Belting may have been one of them. I have contacted the company to see if they have any historical data from that period.
Good lead Charlie, I did a quick search and came up with this:
Page Belting has been producing leather machinery belts, straps, valves and tool pouches since it was founded in 1868. But company president Mark Coen is most proud of Page Belting's long history of supplying the military.
We've been at it since probably 1893, he said during a tour of the company's 40,000-square foot factory. Especially during World War I and World War II. We really geared up for doing knife sheaths and rifle slings.
Amatikulu, I saw that and that was what prompted me to contact them. I sent them a picture of the sling stamping also. Will post any response I get from them.
Of all the WWI and WWII M1907 slings that I've seen, not once has the big crown (Page) shown up. That's a very distinctive marking!
We kept the US part number for the leather rifle slings right from when they arrived here during the 1st WW right up until they were replaced by the wide nylon slings that were even worse than the leather slings. Even during the post 2nd|WW change from Ordnance to Ministry of Supply (MoS) numbering, the old leather sniper slings remained the XX-XX-XX part number. Strangely enough, so did the Browning M1919's until they were gradually converted to L3 spec and even then, for 15 or so years, while the changed parts became NATO numbers, the original parts, such as barrels, feed mechs. etc remained XX-XX-XX US numbers