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C046959 BRITISH P37 WEB WAIST BELT.
BACKGROUND:
In 1937, The British specified a web pattern, for use in personal equipment, made of woven waterproofed cotton, and used it though out the war. In 1942 they issued some changes such as a new frog for the mark II bayonet and increasing the height of the basic pouches to accommodate the Sten SMG magazines. Of Note: Canadian personal equipment was a direct copy of the British 1937-pattern web equipment with manufacture starting in early 1940 and distribution beginning in October of the same year. The Canadian equipment differed from its British counterpart by its yellower colored webbing and the brown paint used to cover the metal parts.PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The 1937 pattern, webbed canvas, tan/khaki belt is 2 1/2" wide and approximately 34" in overall length. To either of its ends are hooks to their upper and lower edges. These hooks are each fed into the small separations equally spaced along the top and bottom of the reverse of the belt, adjusting its length. The two folded-over ends have fed through them, to one side, a brass hooked tab, and to the other, a brass catch assembly. Floating, vertical web retainers are to either end as well. Near the center of the belt, roughly where the small of the back would be, and oriented upwards at inward-leaning angles, are two extended, webbed canvas tabs terminating in brass buckles, for suspenders. To the inside at one end is a black ink-stamped markers mark ‘’R. BURNS Ltd" and the date "1941". Also "broad-arrow" marked. Shows period use and wear. Nice complete example.
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