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03-07-2024 07:36 PM
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komet45
I also could not find any other "field modified" or "field repaired" breadbags for sale or for reference, does the work on this bag look "War Time" or "Post-War?"
Hello.
To be honest I do not think that these modifications have anything to do with field repairs, because the bread bag doesn't fufill its purpose anymore : the front leather tabs have been intentionally removed, and that means that you cannot strap your mess kit nor your canteen to the bag anymore.
A civilian using such a repurposed piece of gear wouldn't mind, but it would be a major hindrance for a soldier.
Not to mention the WW1 uniform hook that looks like something that was put there by someone who knew that the bag was of german origin, but didn't knew at all when it was made.
I could have considered this a field repair on a WW1 bread bag, but here I'm having some serious doubts, sorry to say.
Let's now see if other members may feel otherwise.
Last edited by Edward Lionheart; 03-20-2024 at 01:27 PM.
Reason: Misplaced letter
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I feel it is one of those things that will never be known, though I agree with Edward that it doesn’t have any ‘official’ look to the repairs/modification. That said, it is all part of its history and could well have been carried out in the early post-war years for civilian use.
I like it and would certainly recommend keeping it just as it is.
Rob.
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I agree that it would be pointless to try to reverse it to its initial state, that would be long and complicated to obtain all the required spare parts, and it would look certainly a bit strange in the end, no matter how hard you would try to do it right.
In its current state this bag is way more interesting thant the majority of sad altered wrecks I have seen in attics, flea markets and garage sales over the years.
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Thanks all for the replies, was just looking for additional speculation on this interesting piece. Never have had any thoughts about "restoring" it, I leave things in my collection "as found" as much as possible. There's no question that what has been done to this bag was anything but official, making it all the more curious. I'd love to see a photo of one being worn Post-War!
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I'm sure that in a country bombed into submssion and devoid of industry, that a lot of military items would have been repurposed by civilians.....
" I'm putting off procrastination until next week "
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Hello. That's true and it applies also to formerly occupied countries where people lacked many things and saw the appropriation ofr the former enemy's stuff as some kind of retribution.
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komet45
I'd love to see a photo of one being worn Post-War!
This isn't going to be easy I'm afraid : obviously your breadbag was modified to be worn in the regular way, on a belt, which means that any civilian with this on him will wear on the hip or in the back, and probably underneath a jacket or a coat, making it hard to see, not to say invisible.
I can testify of two different ways bread bags have been repurposed after the war : one Luftwaffe bread bag I bought decades ago at the flea market had several scout badges sewn on it and the name of the kid written on the inner part of the flap, and a great militaria collector I know told me that his dad used to have an early war model " borrowed " during the german retreat in 1944 strapped to the frame of his bicycle until he was to old to ride it.
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Regarding who's the person wearing the bread bag we can wonder if this is a WW2 item or not.
With that picture it's hard if not impossible to say, but the sling looks exactly like the ones on east-german mapcases.
And maybe it is attached to the front D rings because there are no back rings, a feature that appears on some KVP / NVA bread bags dating from the late fifties.
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