Dutch Army Blanco

Here are some tins of the infamous olive drab blanco that is often found plastered on Dutch army webbing from the 1950s-1970s. This is the later style, similar to shoe polish. The earlier style was in powder form. One of the tins has been refilled, because there are burn marks on the bottom from when a previous batch was heated up for easier application to the webbing.



Brown shoe polish, such as for the M57 or M66 combat boots, was issued in identical tins, painted brown instead of olive drab though.

Is there here some knowledge about Blanco?
if you still can get it? and how to work the different products? (powder or the above cream?)
I might need to find some white for a friend who does MP reenactment.

There is a fair bit of useful information here: https://www.blancoandbull.com/

Bert353 wrote:Is there here some knowledge about Blanco?
if you still can get it? and how to work the different products? (powder or the above cream?)
I might need to find some white for a friend who does MP reenactment.

Its still available as old stock in the tins here in the Netherlands. One just has to look for it.

Edit...Forgot to mention the white colour. This normally comes as a liquid rather than paste. See here for where i get mine from the UK.
https://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/shop-re-enactment/british-ww2/webbing/blanco/liquid-blanco-white-for-canvas-and-leather-5743.html


Kevin.

Further to Kevin's point, I think I found the tins posted up above on Marktplaats.

Perhaps, But I guess not in White?
we used them in little plastic bottles, 2/3th kind of water, and 1/3th white goop...
never found those again?

Thanks Kevin, Ill forward that site to him.

No, I have not come across white before, at least not in the Dutch context.