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The WW1 1907 scabbards were supposedly all brown originally and there's no way they're going back to brown from whatever they were dyed black with.

I'm seeing IN6309

I assume that was the idea.

I would just use one of the "leather cleaners" that are marketed for removing the colour from leather and you may have to repeat it. Obviously it's a cleaner that removes colour/dye from leather...

It's only £10.

I think that you will have to try and get more of the black out of the leather before doing anything else to it. Un-dyed leather or leather that has had the colour removed is "supposed" to be a light...

Here is my civilian version of about the same size and which would have originally incorporated a handle which has long since broken off. This has probably been in my family for around 100 years and...

I have found some broken remains of one during some recent gardening and if I can find some more of it I'll attempt to glue the pieces back together.

I do have a "civilian version" of the SRD Jar...

None of us know how long we have which is probably a good thing.

This item may be very familiar to some UK and Commonwealth forum members but perhaps less familiar to some of our US forum members, an SRD Jar, commonly known as a Rum Jar. These were in common use...

Did these come in post war?

I do have various US canteens from WW1 onwards but haven't paid much attention to what lid they have although the WW1 examples have aluminium lids.

But is there anything obvious in the photo that it's reenactors?

Here is my British Mk 4 helmet with the updated, later type, liner which some people refer to as the Mk 5 helmet although I believe that the official designation was still the Mk 4 helmet. It was...

This M1 style helmet shell I believe that I have now identified as being a Danish M48 helmet shell by Diaward Steel Works of Hong Kong for the Danish Civil Defence. The entire helmet shell is...

I would have thought that the oiler was simply "dunked" upside down in the paint, enough to cover the cap, then withdrawn and allowed to dry. I wouldn't have thought that someone applied the paint...

Thanks for the replies chaps. It did come with a few aircraft related bits, hence I thought that it might be aircraft related.

Does anyone recognise what engine this rocker arm might, possibly, be for, please? I did wonder if it might be for an aircraft engine but I'm not so sure now. Many thanks.

Why would that be?

Clearly it is not and clearly it appears to be an 8. However it is a poor quality ink marking that has clearly been "smudged" during application.

Nothing is impossible and "spare parts/components"...

Perhaps it's time to get your eyesight tested.

If it is 1962 it certainly doesn't look like it.

Here is my Bulgarian M51/72 helmet in unissued condition which is a clone of the Italian M33 helmet. Although at first glance it may look the same as the Italian M33 helmet there are some small...

You shouldn't have too much difficulty at the moment but I don't know how much longer they'll be readily available on the surplus market.

The Hungarian M70 Steel Combat Helmet - Cold War Collecting on a Budget. - YouTube

All these Hungarian M70 helmets that are on the surplus market, at least all that I have seen, all have the same glossy finish, although my photos probably make it look slightly more glossy than it...

Supposedly it's the "anti-infrared" coating which I assume has to be gloss to work.