LW Bread Bag Opinions

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[Colorado]

Black thread to me is usually BGS, but I have been wrong before. MGM, yours looks nice.

[CWP]

MGN- Sorry to say, your bread bag with the brown leather is postwar. I have an identical one with a date from the 50s that I have used for reenacting. I bought it for $5 at an Army/Navy surplus store. It had 3-hole buttons when I got it but they have since fallen off. The date was stamped at the end of the long leather strap in the center of the inside. I believe the other bread bag is postwar also. These blue postwar bags are common as they were used by postwar police. Notice that the top edge of both bags is very curved. This is a characteristic of these postwar police bags.

I have seen and owned many postwar bread bags that had the same dimensions as a wartime bag and had 3-hole buttons. The way I know they were postwar is by the markings and where I got them (generally army/navy surplus stores). The one thing all these postwar bread bags have in common is that they have the divider in the inside.

Chris P.

[derspiess63]

Steve,"MG",

sorry to tell you guys but your bread bags are definitely post war!Steve....the lard container is post war as well....many had the bakelite stampings ground off in that those stampings were often very similar to WW2 vintage ones bar for one small detail.....in "1960" the war had been over for a decade and a half....as long as they weren't made by an underground secret factory whose workers weren't aware thast the war was over and that in that year of 1960 the only bombs the Brits dropped over Hamburg were George Harrison,Paul Mc Cartney,John Lennon,Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe ....Ringo had his very own combo then...and the most ridicolous pair of sideburns ever !
Manny

[MGN]

Hello everyone,

So I should return the bag if I can. I purchased it from ebay a while ago. The seller is a familiar name and I think its only right that I should state his name and him ebay user name as well.

I will contact him and see if he will refund my money if not, I would ask that fellow collectors stay away and buy with extreme care.

[airborne_steve]

Thanks guys for the feedback. I figured they were post war. The buttons are worth what I bought them for. The gaiters that came with them are WWII with all the RBN #s, etc.


Thank you. Respectfully Steve

[MGN]

Hello everyone,
I had no luck in getting in touch with the seller of the breadabg and he doesn't want to refund my money. The bread bag and the map case were purchased from TOM ARTER Ebay user name:KKRAD

The breadbag had a fake rubber stamp placed in it to deceive collectors. I will not do any business with this individual again. Buyer beware