please specify a belt

[kekel]

hello friends please specify this belt, thank you in advance for your comments

[Rakkasan187]

I'm not sure but this may be what we call in the US a "money belt"..

Soldiers who didn't want to carry money or valuables in their pockets due to "pick pocketers" would wear a waist belt around their stomachs under their outer garments to conceal their money. It looked almost like an ammuntion bandoleer with pockets to carry/hide change..

Just a thought as I have never seen anything like this before..

Smitty

[CBH]

I agree, money belt, could be WWI or WWII.

[Watchdog]

Well the construction and stitching etc is reminiscent of British Army "stable belts" (each regiment or corps uses one in its own colours) but this is not one of those though it could be a Royal Navy money belt.

The Royal Navy have used both money belts and stable belts but just in navy blue and this looks like a combination of the two designs so a money belt in the same style as a stable belt?

Regards

Mark

PS The stable belt goes back to the days of mounted troops who used to wear a surcingle around their waists when working in the stables tending the horses. These days it is an item of "Barrack dress" even in regiments and corps with no mounted tradition.