Need some help on this one, US M-1938 Dispatch (map) case

[Aragorn243]

I love mine but it isn't this nice. I've carried it around for 40 years now. Still my go to bag for short trips where I might buy a book or two. it's just an open thin bag, no dividers, with places for pens, pencils and a small flashlight.

[Aragorn243]

I went back and gave it the smell test. It's faint but there so it came home with me. Thanks for the advice everyone. I pulled the pencils out and one is pretty old but not quite WWII old. Has a phone number Lancaster ##### which would have started in 1947. LA #####. New York city started doing it that way in 1930 but no one else did.