This item is dated 1944 and with Canadian WD arrow. Owner's name to the side.

Excellent condition

This is an Indian made MK6 bottle, the cover has moth nips as you can see.

Unusual airborne equipment pack by MECo and dated 1944. Unsure what it held, I tried a 303 ammo box as you can see from the photo.

Item is well used with some staining and a buckle has gone from the back but its a rare piece, certainly the only one I've ever seen.

Price may change when I find out what it's for!

I don't know what it held but some mg related accessory most probably.

The waterbottle is there for scale purposes only.

Case could do with a saddle soap and the little closure buckle has gone.

This pair has been issued, one is dated 1945, the other is too faint to read.

Excellent condition and hard to find.

The pair:

Mint unissued bayonet frog for the P44 equipment set. This frog will fit the N0.5 Jungle Carbine bayonet.

Makermarked, WD stamped and dated 1945 along with tropical codings.

For your BEF / early war impression, you need the blue enamel MK6, not the green one.

This one has survived extremely well, there is a slit in the fabric on the bottom of the bottle, could easily be drawn together.

No moth holes in the wool cover, they've usually devoured most bottles of this age.

These are externally the same but one is 43 dated and the other 41.

This belt is unclearly dated due to owner's name however the blanco is a nice wartime pea green colour, much nicer than the very dark KG3 that you often see.

I have a theory about these. Imagine you are producing millions of belts for the Forces. Upon cessation of hostilities, you have lots left over.

What to do? Throw them away or more likely put them into store and in future years when you get new orders from the government, bring them out of store, date stamp them with whatever year it happens to be so that they appear 'new'.

Wartime made but dated up afterwards? Wishful thinking?