maker marks, names, regiment marks, dates and patterns on Zeltbahns

[Glenn Barbaritz]

nice grouping Tom. are either of the bags marked? Glenn

[grndevil44]

agree, nice set up there Tom

I shouldve picked up that zelt with the plastic buttons !

cheers

john

[MP44_tom]

Yes, they are both marked... one unreadable unfortunately (but I suspect it is early because of the alu buttons.
The other one is a TeNo (Technische Nothilfe) bag which is mid war (zink buttons)

Tom
www.mp44.nl

[Glenn Barbaritz]

Yes, they are both marked... one unreadable unfortunately (but I suspect it is early because of the alu buttons.
The other one is a TeNo (Technische Nothilfe) bag which is mid war (zink buttons)

Tom
www.mp44.nl

. also a on your bakelite button version. those are very cool. Glenn

[zeugmeister]

I want to bring this up as an additional for this thread !

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=292237

Regards

Dirk

[MP44_tom]

Hi guys

I have a question on Buttons: On a Zeltbahn (unmarked) I encountered a few different type of Buttons (Mostly zink). But also these grey, three hole bakelite buttons.
Have you ever encontered these before ??

Here some pictures



here a closeup



Tom
www.mp44.nl

[zeugmeister]

Hi Tom,

I think these are italian buttons, i know them in Grey, Lightbrown or clear-transparent Brown.

Dirk

[grndevil44]

had some time off and took some photos of a new zelt I picked up, faint Rb mark

two of the buttons have been replaced with canadian battledress ones, I dont know when this was done as it came from europe

nice piece of original rope too

cheers

john

[grndevil44]

RBnr

[grndevil44]

canadian buttons

[grndevil44]

colour variation

[grndevil44]

this is the first zelt I bought

[grndevil44]

patch

[grndevil44]

here are my ones all together

the second one in from the left is the brown variant

cheers

john

[grndevil44]

have not picked up any zelts in a little while, thought this was the next best thing !

cheers

john