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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

it might help folks if they had a sense of scale about it.

Snakewhip_Sable wrote:it might help folks if they had a sense of scale about it.

Good Idea. I have added it to the original post.
Cheers,
G-MANN

Looks like a key.

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

Regards,
Swindiana

One of the vendors sent me a p-38 military-style can opener with my order. Cool stuff...

Ah COW. Where nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something...is there any question this board can't answer??

This object is made of wood and is less about 1/16" thick, so Swindiana is correct.
Thanks and cheers,
G-MANN

it looks like one of the knife tools on boba fetts leg.

I THINK we never sorted out the swallow thing, but others did;

http://www.armory.com/swallow.html



Regards,
Swindiana

Indakin wrote:it looks like one of the knife tools on boba fetts leg.

Exactly what I was about to say!!!

Snakewhip_Sable wrote:it might help folks if they had a sense of scale about it.

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.

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!

I was just thinking I could have used something like that when I was polishing the buttons on my MKVII. I used brasso to clean it up and now the area around the brass parts is a lighter green. Oh well, I like these bags so much that I bought another one, and it is waiting at home for me.

Swindiana wrote:I THINK we never sorted out the swallow thing, but others did;

http://www.armory.com/swallow.html

Hmm... the Swallow issue is long since solved, mon frère... as you well remember.

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

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.

Regards,
Swindiana

'cept possibly brick walls. Oh we can, but... ya know.

I don't know what this is all about any more.

Me neither... Uhmm...

-Now, what should we talk about?



Regards,
Swindiana

Ahmm... beer?

Or... why hijacking threads is a commendable trait?

8-[

Eh...