Originally Posted by
Peter Laidler
To be honest Tankie, I don't even think that these differences in texture or colour are even of interest to collectors. What I mean is this........ If you had a Bren CES laid out, on show at some display, I would seriously defy anyone to say quite categorically that '......that oil can or bottle or pullthrough or whatsit doesn't go with that Bren.....' And if they did, I'd question their knowledge and experience in a perhaps '.....forthright manner' of two words.
F-10, et-al. If it looks like a duck,quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and swims like a duck, guess what it is? If it fits in the SP wallet, guess what it is?
Just my opinion of course based on absolutely nothing more than having seen a few.........thousand!