Lizard Poncho/Shelter Half.

Been after a reasonably priced one of these for a while now.

Nice one Gulf, I have one with similar Camo colouring, I used to use mine as a backdrop for when I took pics of all things french militaria

Love the colours and glad the stamps are all still visible as well.

Gulf91 wrote:Love the colours and glad the stamps are all still visible as well.

Agreed,if it's anything like mine, it's bright, mine also has good clear stamps, I will dig mine out and post it up for comparison if you like

Everybody should have 4

There are two varieties. One has metal press stud buttons, the other metal sewn on. There are two different camo patterns too, and IIRC they are linked with the buttons. One is more dense than the other. The dense one, as Gulf has, is the more common type.

Somewhere I posted some comparison pics.

Steve

Four,Darn I need to up my game

Steve I was not aware that there are two types, I assumed they were all the sewn on button types, that's great to know.Ignoring the jacket, here's my shelter -half,and pic of the stamp and sewn on buttons.

Nice Gary,looks unissued?

Oo, that is a crisp one! I've had about a half dozen in my hands before and I don't remember having a stamp like that.

Here's a link to the thread I mentioned:

https://iacmc.forumotion.com/t4364-french-50s-shelter-half?highlight=shelter

And the pictures of the two types:





I don't know if the "sparse" type has pressed buttons as an option, but it does seem like the "dense" type has either of the two types.

Note also that Gilles responded at the time:

The second, I don't know what is the pattern, rare item!

From a man that has almost everything ever made for French forces, including shelter halves in WSS and Italian camo, I'm thinking I did much better with that acquisition than I thought

Steve

Gulf91 wrote:Nice Gary,looks unissued?

Thanks mate, yeah I reckon this one was never used/issued

CollectinSteve wrote:Oo, that is a crisp one! I've had about a half dozen in my hands before and I don't remember having a stamp like that.

Here's a link to the thread I mentioned:

https://iacmc.forumotion.com/t4364-french-50s-shelter-half?highlight=shelter

And the pictures of the two types:





I don't know if the "sparse" type has pressed buttons as an option, but it does seem like the "dense" type has either of the two types.

Note also that Gilles responded at the time:

The second, I don't know what is the pattern, rare item!

From a man that has almost everything ever made for French forces, including shelter halves in WSS and Italian camo, I'm thinking I did much better with that acquisition than I thought

Steve

Thanks for the info Steve, and yeah I specifically bought this particular one, due to it's clear stamp ( I am anal when it comes to markings/stamps I'm afraid)

You did good with the rare one, and indeed Gilles is a very valuable source of French Militaria here, much respect due to his expertise!