Nice 39 dated Medical canteen

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Hi Tom,unbeliveble but yours canteen is sisters of mine,also buy on ebay some day ago:

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But my isn't matching unfortunately:

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[albertcher]

Brown Leather Labelflasche

Hello,

The brown-leather bottles without any hook are for nurses, as a hook is senseless without anything to hang it to.
It is mentioned in a DRK-manual dating from 1938 that brown leather equipment ist for female personel, black leather equipment for male personel. Two nurses were considered as a team: One equiped with a Sanitätstasche (brown leather first aid pouch with a long sling. Do not mix up with the two ones Tom has in teh picture below!) and the other nurse with such a bottle.

If anyone is anyoed by owning a brown leather version, i will give a complete CFL39 marked one like Tom's in exchange! I really search such a bottle in a good condition.

My first post in this forum I hope it helped somebody!

Gruß

[Jan B]

Hello,

The brown-leather bottles without any hook are for nurses, as a hook is senseless without anything to hang it to.
It is mentioned in a DRK-manual dating from 1938 that brown leather equipment ist for female personel, black leather equipment for male personel. Two nurses were considered as a team: One equiped with a Sanitätstasche (brown leather first aid pouch with a long sling. Do not mix up with the two ones Tom has in teh picture below!) and the other nurse with such a bottle.

If anyone is anyoed by owning a brown leather version, i will give a complete CFL39 marked one like Tom's in exchange! I really search such a bottle in a good condition.

My first post in this forum I hope it helped somebody!


Gruß

Thanks for clearing this out. I knew that hookless bottles were non-military, but wasn't aware of the difference in colour of the equipement depending on gender.

Small additional thought from my side : what about black (or blackened) harnesses without the hook?

Military versions that simply 'lost' the hook then? As male DRK-mitglieder did have a belt, right?

Is this stuff fun or what?


Regards

Jan

[albertcher]

Black leather without Hook

When you take a closer look on the bottles you will see, that the leather part where the hook is fixed ist not seewn to the rest of the harness. So maybe ist is lost or whatever. And as everytime: There is no rule without an exeption! When you look at some of the brown leather bottles, you will see that some have a piece of leather like the one where the hook is usually fixed to, but without any hook just to keep the crossing leatherslings of the harness in place.
What i stated is according to the '38 dated manual... There were several other organisations too, that emplyed female personel and which did not attend a colour-gender-policy like the DRK. For example female personal in the Luftschutz.

The Wehrmacht for example used brown Sanitätstaschen, in DRK strictly issued them to women.