Just picked up this leather sling from a pawn shop. It has no markings. It looks like a Finnish sling but the brass buckle seems odd. The buckle is however just slightly larger than a Finn M39 buckle. Measures 45” long x 1” wide.
Anyone have any ideas of its origins???
Finn Brass Buckel Sling ???
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Finn Brass Buckel Sling ???
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Re: Finn Brass Buckel Sling ???
I'm not sure it's Finnish. Looks like a standard Russian M91 sling. Especially because it's sewn in and not riveted.
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Re: Finn Brass Buckel Sling ???
Looks French.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Re: Finn Brass Buckel Sling ???
Usually the Finns had exed that stitching for reenforcement and I don't see it there. Bill 
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Re: Finn Brass Buckel Sling ???
That is French, same slings that I have on two of the Berthiers.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt