Leather mapcase

[NorthFront]

Hello

i try to identifiate this mapcase, i think it's US but, never seen








Thank's for your help

[NorthFront]

[Gary Cain]

It's a civilian map case used by surveyors and geologists. I have one that i bought years and years and years ago, that i used for my geologic work.

[NorthFront]

Hello,

Thank's for your opinion,
Is it a possible used during the ww2 as private purchase by us soldier or other nation?


Thank's a lot.

[phild]

This style mapcase was used extensively by British, French and American officer’s in WWI and can be seen in photos carried by German Officers (in both wars) as well. The latter may have been captured cases but I have seen examples made in the US and France and I believe the UK. Most I’ve seen were made in corduroy leather and most incorporated a small compass. The also generally have a brittle celluloid panel with grid scale (often broken or missing) and sometimes a felt cover for the window. The one thing I don’t recall seeing are the lift dot snaps, they seem overkill for what are usually very small simple conventional snaps but the lift dots were used for all sorts of items.

I’d say this could be from either world war but lacking specific information and going on a hunch from the shade of the leather I would guess this one is from the 1920s - 1930s.

I do agree they were private purchase so civilians could also have used them.

[MikeP]

Reminds me of a neighbor when I was a kid. He was a civil engineer. He used a German map case that he had brought home. Still had original colored pencils.

I got a mint matching C96 rig from him.

[Gary Cain]

Hello,

Thank's for your opinion,
Is it a possible used during the ww2 as private purchase by us soldier or other nation?


Thank's a lot.

Yes, anybody with money would buy them because they were better quality than what you could get from the Army.

[NorthFront]

Hello.

Thank's for your opinions.

Best regard's

[JackVee]

The mapcase is about the same design as the British jungle mapcase. Lift-the-Dot is more typical British used than American and you see these also on RAF equipment.

As said earlier, this case is more likely a private purchase. Maybe you can give it a try on the British Militaria forum.

Good luck