Help- long Bren sling with 1941 date?

[Richard W.]

In hindsight, I probably should have guessed because it’s so immaculate, but the thickness and weave of the webbing seems just the same as a definitely original Bren sling I used to own. Looking at that brass now, though, I can see it certainly doesn’t look 80 years old, or the hook. Dumb.

It was fairly cheap, too, which seems a dead giveaway now.

I still expect reproductions to be labelled as such. Perhaps it was an oversight on their part. I’ve been buying parts from them for many years and always got what I expected to get.

This will be going on a dummy gun, anyway, and it is nicely made so I’m not unhappy.

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I have purchased from SARCO since 1966 and use to visit their store in N.J. every 2 weeks until I retired and move to Maine in 2007 . They have made some very good fake items over the years and they have sold many original items and the key understanding is to all ways ask if it is a repro. or real original item . They are pretty honest and will tell you what it is .

[Flying10uk]

I still expect reproductions to be labelled as such.

I agree with what you are saying Richard, but, they haven't advertised it as a WW2 sling have they? It is just advertised as a Bren sling; a Bren sling made in 1944 or 2020 is still a Bren sling. So, unless it was the first ever Bren sling made, you could call a Bren sling made in 1944 a "reproduction" because it wasn't the first Bren sling ever made.

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