K98 Pouches

**MattyBoy2006** · 02-10-2020, 05:35 PM

Good afternoon all

I am liking the look of these pouches & just wanted your views & opinions!

Not a pair but almost! Both with RBNr on the rears

Thank you & best regards

Matt

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-10-2020 05:35 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Neil Hever** · 02-10-2020, 06:30 PM

Good later war pair. How about the internals? There are dividers in each pouch usually made of rawhide. They are sometimes damage or purposefully removed. NH

**MattyBoy2006** · 02-10-2020, 06:53 PM

Hi there!

Thank you for your speedy reply! Much appreciated

All of the dividers are there bar one pouch

Best regards

Matt

**JPhilip** · 02-10-2020, 08:12 PM

Hello,
These Patronentaschen 1911 are OK. As produced between late 1942 and the end of the war
Thanks

**Kohima** · 02-11-2020, 12:05 PM

I shouldn’t worry about the markings too much. Items like this were issued in ‘twos’, rather than as a truly matching pair (according to maker, date, shade, &c.). Very few storemen would bother about matching up Rb. Numbers before issuing them!
As with epaulets, boots, gloves and the like, if you’ve got two of them, you have a pair.
Mismatched items, named and equally worn by the same man can often be found (I have such a pair of German marching boots, and a pair of US M’43 boots named and numbered to the same GI).

These look like a nice pair, too...

All the best,
Bob

**Kateri** · 02-13-2020, 11:51 AM

May I please ask why,and at what time since manufacture did these pouches often have their internal dividers removed?
Thank you for any help.

**JPhilip** · 02-13-2020, 03:19 PM

by Kateri

May I please ask why,and at what time since manufacture did these pouches often have their internal dividers removed?
Thank you for any help.

Hello,
Internal dividers were often removed by soldiers themselves because it must have bothered them for extracting clips from the pouch, despite the notch cut on the front of the latter. It was done so often that an official order was issued in June 1942 to remind the soldiers not to do so. Some were also removed postwar. I once met a fisherman who used a 1911 ammo pouch to have the small fishing items at the belt, all dividers were gone.
Hope it helps
Thanks