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Picked up the above pair of short puttees up for 2 quid at a boot sale today
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loski- Captain
- Name : Graham
Age : 59
Location : West Sussex
Registration date : 2010-08-11
Number of posts : 919
Picked up the above pair of short puttees up for 2 quid at a boot sale today
Gulf91- Colonel
- Age : 53
Location : Wales
Registration date : 2011-05-13
Number of posts : 3858
If not worn out there should be markings,sort of white painted on each puttee when you unroll them.
loski- Captain
- Name : Graham
Age : 59
Location : West Sussex
Registration date : 2010-08-11
Number of posts : 919
The markings have been washed/worn out but they are in good nick.
Gulf91- Colonel
- Age : 53
Location : Wales
Registration date : 2011-05-13
Number of posts : 3858
loski wrote:The markings have been washed/worn out but they are in good nick.
As unfortunately is usually the case with the markings.
There are also private purchase ones made by FOX of a lighter coloured,finer material,used by officers maybe??
loski- Captain
- Name : Graham
Age : 59
Location : West Sussex
Registration date : 2010-08-11
Number of posts : 919
Hi Gulf they are not the officers type fawn ones shown in the above photo on the left but the OR's shown on the right
even without markings they were a good find for 2 quid.
Fallschirmwomble- Corporal
- Name : Paul S
Age : 59
Location : London
Registration date : 2014-05-25
Number of posts : 37
That is a result! I liked puttees, they supported your ankles whilst running really well.
But here's a tragic story for you:
When I was a recruit, I bought what turned out to be a pair of whoppingly long puttees from my local surplus store. I EASILY could wrap them up to my knees in the correct fashion. I quickly realised that they were WWI issue.
Do you know what I did?
In those days, I only collected webbing and didn't care about anything else. I had the brilliant idea of cutting them midway to make two pairs of short puttees!
It STILL (rightly!) bothers me, that...
But here's a tragic story for you:
When I was a recruit, I bought what turned out to be a pair of whoppingly long puttees from my local surplus store. I EASILY could wrap them up to my knees in the correct fashion. I quickly realised that they were WWI issue.
Do you know what I did?
In those days, I only collected webbing and didn't care about anything else. I had the brilliant idea of cutting them midway to make two pairs of short puttees!
It STILL (rightly!) bothers me, that...
Wolverine- Major
- Name : Andrew
Location : Canada
Registration date : 2014-01-18
Number of posts : 1409
We all have regrets like that one...