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Now that is most interesting.

Do you have information that M1917s were made in France under US contract, or were you guessing because of the maker of your own items? I ask because IF regulation saddles were made in France, the "bayonet" variation might simply have been available upon request, or ...

Ladies and Gents:

I have been giving silicon oil treatments to my own "French" M1917 with a JQMD repair tag on it. Would need the standard item to make a full comparison, but it would appear that except for the method of pommel bag attachment, it is identical to the "standard" M1917. No one seems ...

Nice synopsis, Anita. FWIW. RJ Samp sometimes puts into this site, too. I have three signalling trumpets that I bought from a collection known to RJ a few years ago (shown below -- Will post better pix as soon as I can). In the back is a is a brass-fitted copper one from the late '70s. The center is ...

Sam:

You are merely stating facts. Many Asian nations are disturbed by the fact that the record of the Japanese in the pre-war period has been so largely ignored. A few years back there was a big furor when the Chinese and Koreans found out that very little about it is said in Japanese textbooks ...

My mother's cousin by marriage was a paratrooper. He was dropped at some point early on in a deep penetration mission. WOuld up on a mule much of the time, but also a bicycle if I recall correctly. He was selected partly because as a first-generation Belgian, he spoke good French. The story is a bit ...

David:

Most interesting post. Do tell more. Quite a few of us are interested in music. Jim Ott researched 19th century music for horse-mounted cavalry bands and produced a very nice CD of period arrangements played live by a brass band of period type. Rod Stewart sat in for part of the recording ...

I like Lili Marlene, too, and can sing most of it in German. Once in graduate school a group of faculty and students went to a beer garden restaurant together. After a couple of pitchers (jugs to you English and Aussies and the like) and some wurst, I got the accordianist to play it. Among the ...

There seems to have been an aesthetic of the melancholy during the mid 19th century, a sort of offshoot of romanticism. Remember that Goethe's <i>Werthor</i> was one of the most influential books of the Romantic era, and it was about a suicide when you get right down to it.

The Great War, on the ...

Ari and all -- thought you might like this shot of a US field kitchen in action iin the 1st World War

Joe

Miguel:

Finally had time to scan these old hand-colored photos from the turn of the century. As you can see, some of the US training was similar to that used by Portugal. The last poor boy is in Hawaii, and looks as if he needs <i>more training</i>! The guys on the slide date to about 1916 or 1917 ...

WOnderful pictures of interesting horses and equipment. I also like the house and forest. What breed are the horses?

Off topic, but once in Sweden, our hosts gave us a desert that was called currants with chinuski sauce or something like that. Obviously I can't spell it, but it was very good, and ...

This whole Whitman business is most interesting. US Cavalry Whitmans are pretty scarce, and even more scarce are the bridles. I have owned a civvie Whitman in the past, and presently own two Whitman bridles, neither of which are US military. One has split tapered reins, and a Whitman shaped bit ...

Actually, Rick, Steffen says that there was quite a bit of experimentation with russet in the late 19th century.

Joe

Y'know, this stupid movie was based on a true story, in the dsame way that so many fradulent ebay "Civil War" saddles are based on real saddles ('04 trees).

AND, George, to the kind of folks who would make such a silly film, it might make sense that the country that would take in American ...

Jim:

Excellent review, with which I largely agree (and if that isn't a good test for what is excellent, I don't know what is!). I have nothing to add to your survey of the book -- except that the most serious flaw in an otherwise useful but imperfect work is, in my opinion, the treatment of ...