British & Canadian nets & netted helmets

[tinlid]

So why do collectors say these are Canadian, Even MC when I showed him one?

A picture of one in Europe.
Mind you, it is the only picture I have of them being used.

[SMP]

So why do collectors say these are Canadian, Even MC when I showed him one?
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Well, a couple of possibilities:
1. They always were Australian and MC was wrong.
2. There is a Canadian made net very similar but not identical to this.
3. They are Canadian, but an Australian company got the licence to copy it exactly.

I need to buy one and compare it with the one I always believed was Canadian.

[Composite]

“MC was wrong” ?!!!! :-)

[SMP]

The net we thought was Canadian:

[psycopis]

I buy one

How is the misure of the holes of tinlid net and SMP net?

[Mark K]

Steve my own example that I had always thought was a early war time Canadian woven, I have not had a chance to do a side by side comparison with two Australian examples that I just received in the mail a few weeks back...

Regards Mark K

[SMP]

Steve my own example that I had always thought was a early war time Canadian woven, I have not had a chance to do a side by side comparison with two Australian examples that I just received in the mail a few weeks back...

Regards Mark K

Thanks Mark.
When you get a chance , please can you post really close photos of both, and take measurements ?

[Mark K]

There are more than a few subtle differences when comparing what we will call for now the Canadian variation of this early war woven net in comparison to its Australian counterpart I will try and cover them all below..

1st being the size of the net the Canadian net is 44-1/2 cm x 38-1/2 cm


2nd being the color the Canadian variation is a lighter shade of green

3rd being the textiles that were used in construction the material is much softer and thicker

4th being the weave which would appear to be much tighter

5th the draw string is lighter in color and thinner in diameter than the Australian variation

Australian early war woven net

1st It measures in at 42-cm x 38-1/2 cm


2nd it is a darker shade of green

3rd the textiles that were used are quite thin almost like thread in comparison to the Canadian example

4th the weave would appear to be much looser than its Canadian counterpart

5th the draw sting is darker in color and thicker in Diameter

So the question still stands is there enough difference in these examples shown above to consider them two different nets or is it the case of changing textiles that they used during production, which had a little different dye applied to the thread making it appear lighter in color and the size of the net was changed slightly..

Regards Mark K

[SMP]

Excellent work Mark - different nets to be sure. Looks like your first net remains Canadian ( at least for the time being !)

[Composite]

Mark, I can’t claim to be a (sad :-)) net man but this type of investment into a topic is admirable and most welcomed. Is it now time to give these things names or Mark numbers.....Canadian Mk1, Aussie Mk4, Brit Mk3 etc or “Australian Thread”, “Canadian Tight weave” etc.?.........it could be your mark (pun INTENDED) on the Net world.......