Strange, unknown german bag

[levaid]

Hello guys!

I can't identify this bag. I didn't find any similar on the internet. It has the usual oval marking in the leather at back, but it's unreadable. Only 1942 is hardly visible.
Please help!

Thank you!

[bigmacglenn]

Appears to be an altered/converted Bread-Bag...A Postwar Schoolbook Satchel, perhaps?? Never seen anything quite like that, Friend...
Hopefully one of our friends will be able to offer more info...I like a good mystery!
cheers, Glenn

[levaid]

Thank you Glenn! I also suspected modification! But if it's a schoolbag, why the leather part marked 1942 like the military pieces?

[bigmacglenn]

Thank you Glenn! I also suspected modification! But if it's a schoolbag, why the leather part marked 1942 like the military pieces?

I can only speculate that the leather flap may originate from mounted troops/Saddle-Bag...
cheers, Glenn

[CBH]

I think it could be Swiss, they used leather in some webbing I believe.

Check all the hardware for logos this can help to narrow it down.

[Stinkpotpete]

With the inner pockets the hooks and how the leather cover laces to the bag, I would say it's Swiss, not German. The cover looks to be from an M17( I think that's the right number) bread bag. If the bag is dated 1942, it's been re-assembled from 2 different models. The ww2 bags had a "salt and pepper" canvas cover that changed to a rubberized cover in the 70s.

I found another thread about a similar one here https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/imper...ad-bag-345601/

[levaid]

You won! This is a WWI Swiss bread bag! I found a 1 and a 5 on the two sides of the oval marking, so probably the bag is from 1915. I make a photo of the marking.

[Stinkpotpete]

It's amazing for a country that never went to war in modern times and how long different pieces of equipment were kept in service, how many Swiss items you find

[Neil Hever]

Sure looks like a German Brotbeutel strap on that thing. NH

[Stinkpotpete]

It's definitely seen better days, but yeah, that's a German bread bag strap. Even after 102 years its still going strong...ish