Hello,
I have a question - these things that I just pulled out after long time in my garage - are these German WWII Y-riemen? /asking, because the pictures of Bulgarians with Y-riemen are too small, so can not say/.
BTW - not seen on the pictures - but the 3 parts - the 2 longer to the front and the 1 shorter to the back, are joined together by a metal ring.
And here is the ful story about my ignorance and the Y-riemen, if you have time and want to read
So, some time ago I was in a huge Bulgarian military store. As empty as huge - and it was very huge - and so very empty. The military had sold years before everything that had been stored inthere, whatever it had been. Only some junk was left - a few pots, some wooden pieces from army tent crates /Bulgarian, dated 1942!/, lots of rugs and lots of pieces of leather straps. Leather straps can always be useful, so I threw in the cartrunk a handful. Most were simple short pieces. But there was also one bigger mess of straps - these two. There were lots of ends pointing out of the mess, some ends had flat metal hooks. I thought these straps were removed from backpacks of something like this. When came home dropped them on the shelves in he garage and forgot.
Today I had a look at the collection of Dave Suter (Sarge). As saw one manequin /and his Y-straps with flat iron hooks
/ I ran to the garage. Ignorance, ignorance! I collect mainly helmets. Also have canteens, bayonets, gas mask canisters, ammo crates, etc - also have heard of the existence of a thing called Y-riemen, but had never looked for details! Ignorance, ignorance! Fortunately the stay in the garage has not damaged the things at all. Now they will be kept in a better place and I just need to know whether they are German or Bulgarian /in both cases the things became very interesting for me/.
BTW, there is no problem at all that the riemen were in a Bulgarian store - lots of German military WWI and WWII equipment has been in the old stores and probably some is still there!
I have a question - these things that I just pulled out after long time in my garage - are these German WWII Y-riemen? /asking, because the pictures of Bulgarians with Y-riemen are too small, so can not say/.
BTW - not seen on the pictures - but the 3 parts - the 2 longer to the front and the 1 shorter to the back, are joined together by a metal ring.And here is the ful story about my ignorance and the Y-riemen, if you have time and want to read
So, some time ago I was in a huge Bulgarian military store. As empty as huge - and it was very huge - and so very empty. The military had sold years before everything that had been stored inthere, whatever it had been. Only some junk was left - a few pots, some wooden pieces from army tent crates /Bulgarian, dated 1942!/, lots of rugs and lots of pieces of leather straps. Leather straps can always be useful, so I threw in the cartrunk a handful. Most were simple short pieces. But there was also one bigger mess of straps - these two. There were lots of ends pointing out of the mess, some ends had flat metal hooks. I thought these straps were removed from backpacks of something like this. When came home dropped them on the shelves in he garage and forgot.
Today I had a look at the collection of Dave Suter (Sarge). As saw one manequin /and his Y-straps with flat iron hooks
/ I ran to the garage. Ignorance, ignorance! I collect mainly helmets. Also have canteens, bayonets, gas mask canisters, ammo crates, etc - also have heard of the existence of a thing called Y-riemen, but had never looked for details! Ignorance, ignorance! Fortunately the stay in the garage has not damaged the things at all. Now they will be kept in a better place and I just need to know whether they are German or Bulgarian /in both cases the things became very interesting for me/.BTW, there is no problem at all that the riemen were in a Bulgarian store - lots of German military WWI and WWII equipment has been in the old stores and probably some is still there!
Thanks a lot, once again!
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