Yugoslav Pre-WWII issue leather gear

[Jim]

While Yugoslavian pre-war made M1924 Mauser rifles are relatively common, their support gear isn't so I thought some images might be of interests at least for reference.

The cap is late Cold War issue, sometime in the 1970s- I forget exactly but (forgive the pun) 'off the top of my head' I think it was'78. The medal is for service in WWII and the Red star is, Russian or Yugoslav and made when, who knows? It has a screw back marked "Zagreb" so that part art least is "Yugoslavian" (allowing Croatia was part of Yugoslavia at the time). But, these are common items.

The ammo pouch is only rarely seen. In fact, this is the only one such I ever have seen. I ran across it on ebay. It is made to hold 5 round 7.9mm ammunition on clips. It was made at a slant like it is so that besides the Mauser ammo clips, it could accommodate the slanted ammo clips used for converted Steyer rifles also in Yugoslav inventory at the time.

The sling is attached to a friend's type one carbine. I have never actually seen one of these or, for that matter a pre-war style bayonet frog either. In the sling, M1930, of particular interest are the odd style, metal adjustment... call them, fasteners.

The image showing 2 frogs, M48 on L & M1924 on R, belongs to another friend as well. The frog on the original M1924 bayonet is a reproduction model I made. The later model is really a much more efficient one securing the scabbard and bayonet separately.

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Well, I hope these are of some interest.

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