Comments for Let's have a whatziss...

Let's have a whatziss...

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:51:59 -0600

It's been a while. My current task (not to mention the add-on task that has me at Fort Knox last week and next) so burns me out that I've been a sluggish poster of late. So let's do some obscure militaria. A full picture of the item in question, not just a hint of it (that one I'm saving for later in the week...) To give you a sense of scale, my hand covers the item from fingertip to wrist. The thing barely fits around my wrist (which means for most of you it would be very loose). You may commence.

Comment from Outpost37 on 2008-07-15

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:43 -0600

You people are all wrong! It's an official Texas Rangers wrist bandolier for a Shiner Bock 12-pack.

Comment from AW1 Tim on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:41:58 -0600

It's mot for a Sibley Tent. That one had a special ring that slipped over the stove pipe center pole. The lines were attached to the skirt edges of the ternt. Sibleys I know from.....

   The bit about the Morris dancers has always perpleced me. I mean that, of all the areas where they would have felt right at home, Grance seemed to me the one place that would have counted./ Alas, it was not to be. I blame an ober-exposure to Gilbert and Sillican for their demose, along with the inevitable influx of German Narcissists.

   One would have thought that the blending of Morris Dancers with Frencj Mimes would have played havoc with German sinsibilities..... sadly, it probably allied with a jungean strain and added a year or more to the war.

   It is what it is.   Sigh.......

Comment from kat-missouri on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:11:38 -0600

Yes. Anything less than the 27" or a #82 is unacceptable.

Comment from John (Not the armorer!) on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:43:28 -0600

I think USMC Steve may have it.
Or maybe something for a conical tent (Sibley? or WW1 era?) at the top of the pole to spread the suporting ropes?

Comment from Maggie on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:55:42 -0600

We try to maintain the standards, even when there's absolutely no chance K-Lo will be dropping in to peek...

We have standards?

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:58:33 -0600

It's a Gun Emplacement Crew Anchor Device. Fastened to the gun carriage, lines are run from the loops to the members of the gun crew, to keep them from getting lost in the gun pit.

Cheers

Comment from heath alouf on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:26:49 -0600

Pull through for a howitzer ( out of left field I know), or like some one suggested, a sling, and I'll throw in for a cannon/artillery piece.

Heath.

Arte et Marte

Comment from USMC Steve on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:51:56 -0600

Looks like a canvas rifle rack that fits around a tent pole. I believe it is British, probably for Sten guns.

Comment from BillT on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:08:00 -0600

We try to maintain the standards, even when there's absolutely no chance K-Lo will be dropping in to peek...

Comment from kat-missouri on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:57:17 -0600

While the cat's away...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:54:07 -0600

Heh. Just, heh. Get off an airplane, and find the place has become... naughty.

Comment from kat-missouri on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:41:30 -0600

WK...1 loop for every 2.5". It's regulation.

Comment from Maggie on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:20 -0600

WK, why are you looking at me like that?

We all do baby!

Comment from WereKitten on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:59:30 -0600

You're safe, Bill.
That thing only has 12 loops.. you have 27 inches.

Comment from BillT on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:41:34 -0600

Ummmm -- WK, why are you looking at me like that?

Comment from RetRsvMike on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:23:40 -0600

the strapping appears to be substantial enough that if the leather was cinched around something, then the multiple strap points could be used to attach lifting eyelets (or hooks) to use in manhandling the something into place... the something being round, and heavy, and long...

Comment from fdcol63 on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:17:09 -0600

A "cat o' 12 rings". LOL

Comment from WereKitten on 2008-07-14

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:39:38 -0600

If i didn't know better I'd say you find this near werekitty's bed... to hold her collection of... thingies.

And since I know better... I can't explain exactly how to use this "thingy". The PG17C would attack for sure. :-)

Comment from Justthisguy on 2008-07-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:54:09 -0600

The wrist mention is obviously a distraction. I think the thing was intended to be buckled about some inanimate object, to hold some other inanimate objects in a state of readiness to do violence.

Comment from HomefrontSix on 2008-07-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:22:11 -0600

Darnit! I wondered where that had gotten to. How'd it get all the way over there?? I'm SO embarrassed. *blushes*

Comment from Eric Wilner on 2008-07-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:51:07 -0600

Ankle bandoleer for 0.55" Boys rounds.
These were used by the antitank Morris troupes from 31 April 1940 to 1 May 1940, after which the entire concept of combat Morris troupes was discarded.

Comment from AW1 Tim on 2008-07-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:02:05 -0600

Well,

To add to my earlier post, I am leaning towards saying that, whatever it is, it is French, and probably WWI or Franco Prussian period, but my first impression is WWI.

Could also be that period and for US Navy use. Hard to tell, but something about it, pergaps the Horizon Blue colour just says Grench to me.

I still say it has something to do with ammunition.

Comment from bad cat robot on 2008-07-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:46:55 -0600

Training belt for a young Fezzick? Swab-holder for the 40mm Choklit Mortar?

Comment from ledger on 2008-07-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:19:57 -0600

Gold bullion smuggling device for ankle use. The gold is melted and cast in the shape of grenade then painted to disguise it.

John, remember no more than a 1 gold bar per day or you maybe suspect.

Comment from Argent on 2008-07-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:18:01 -0600

I really don't know but i have some random babble and as usual I offer it free of charge today only if you buy the noodle soup;

* Leather straps are normally only used for people but the the Army they seem to be used for everything. I find them terribly insecure so I'm guessing what they hold doesn't matter too much if they fall off.
* It's coloured. Light blue. I have no idea why. Over here I'd prolly guess police or airforce for that but colours have codes and I'm missing my guess a shade manual. Most men can do light blue. They can't do peach or fuchsia. When they need peach and fuchsia in the colour codebook the military is doomed.
* It has small leather bits that encourage even separation of the thingies you put in the canvas straps.
* It holds 12 thingies. Is 12 a magic number?
* Guessing thingies are circular at holding point around 1/2 an inch in diameter.
* Guessing thingies are not regular shaped so they don;t slip out canvas.
* If i didn't know better I'd say you find this near werekitty's bed... to hold her collection of... thingies.

Comment from AW1 Tim on 2008-07-13

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:45:54 -0600

Fort Knox, eh? I was there for basic. Assigned to 2nd squad, 2nd [platoon, B 13/4 Got a pic somewhere of me on the rifle range with my trusty M18a1. I remember well agony hill and the sea of red clay that Knox was built upon. heck, we were still in those WWII era barracks. Sigh.

So anyway, I'll take a stab at it. It's either a Mills belt for a chihuahua, or a loop for rifle grenades that fastens around the stock of the M1918. It might also be a loop that fastens around another pole to hold a cluster of smaller poles, like maybe marker flags, or some such nonsense.

Good choice for a whatsit, though....