What in the heck is this thing?
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What in the heck is this thing?
This item came with my MARK VII bag.
Dimensions are 6-7/8" Long X 2-1/4" Wide
Any idea what it is or what it is used for?
Cheers,
G-MANN
Dimensions are 6-7/8" Long X 2-1/4" Wide
Any idea what it is or what it is used for?
Cheers,
G-MANN
Last edited by G-MANN on Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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It is a bakerlite button stick.
My guess is it was used to lift up the button when polishing it not to stain the fabric on the uniform or webbing.
Another version was the plain brass one.
EDIT:
More info here;
http://www.bodill-parker.co.uk/html/but ... story.html
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My guess is it was used to lift up the button when polishing it not to stain the fabric on the uniform or webbing.
Another version was the plain brass one.
EDIT:
More info here;
http://www.bodill-parker.co.uk/html/but ... story.html
Regards,
Swindiana
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I THINK we never sorted out the swallow thing, but others did;
http://www.armory.com/swallow.html
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http://www.armory.com/swallow.html
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Swindiana
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It's a standard British Army buuton stick. You place it under the brass buttons and buckles etc. on a dress uniform so you keep the polish off the cloth. This one could be WW2 - they haven't changed much.Snakewhip_Sable wrote:it might help folks if they had a sense of scale about it.
No, they haven't, and welcome to the forum Alan. I've got a brass one identical to the first example posted that is broad arrow marked with a NATO stock number and dated sometime in the 1960s. I also have a red compressed fibre version that matches the second one pictured.They are both about five or six inches in length.
BTW, the scalloped cut outs on the edges of the first stick were used to protect the cotton webbing portions of the pattern 1937 webbing set when polishing the brass tags on the ends of the waist belt, shoulder braces, and various straps that were a part of the equipment.
Cheers!
BTW, the scalloped cut outs on the edges of the first stick were used to protect the cotton webbing portions of the pattern 1937 webbing set when polishing the brass tags on the ends of the waist belt, shoulder braces, and various straps that were a part of the equipment.
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Hmm... the Swallow issue is long since solved, mon frère... as you well remember.Swindiana wrote:I THINK we never sorted out the swallow thing, but others did;
http://www.armory.com/swallow.html
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
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I remember, my friend.
The http://www.armory.com/swallow.html site has a link to it aswell.
Like stated before, aint nuthin' we can't tackle.
-I can't think of... anything.
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Swindiana
The http://www.armory.com/swallow.html site has a link to it aswell.
Like stated before, aint nuthin' we can't tackle.
-I can't think of... anything.
Regards,
Swindiana
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