GCUSTER Posted February 5, 2010 Share #1 Posted February 5, 2010 I WON THIS POUCH BACK IN NOVEMBER HOPING IT WAS FROM WW11. THERE IS NO DATE ON THE BACK, BUT FOR $11.95 I THOUGHT WHAT THE HECK. THE LAST LINE OF THE DESCRIPTION SAID TWO MAGS WERE INCLUDED, SO I THREW CAUTION TO THE WIND! GLENN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doran Posted February 5, 2010 Share #2 Posted February 5, 2010 Worth 5 - 10x what you paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
everforward Posted February 5, 2010 Share #3 Posted February 5, 2010 Nice....WW2 Scovill and M.S. Little Mags...! But, I think the mags are stuffed in an M-1 Carbine Mag Pouch and not a .45 pouch......that should be easy to remedy though, plenty of them around..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtdorango Posted February 5, 2010 Share #4 Posted February 5, 2010 Nice !....forgive my lack of knowledge on the mags....are they rare and hard to find?......mike :think: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doran Posted February 5, 2010 Share #5 Posted February 5, 2010 Excellent condition WWII contract magazines are increasingly harder to find and usually ask $50+ at shows. That letter font indicates late WWII production with welded baseplates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted February 7, 2010 Share #6 Posted February 7, 2010 I scored at the army surplus store today thanks to this post. They didn't have a ton of interesting stuff, but I glanced in a case full of police junk and there were two mags. Asked to look at them, and sure enough, letters on the base plate like this. One is that same Scovill, other has an R. Remington??? Gonna try to look and see what it is. $10 each, good shape. And I just paid $12 each for some new made good quality mags before I got to the surplus store! Excellent condition WWII contract magazines are increasingly harder to find and usually ask $50+ at shows. That letter font indicates late WWII production with welded baseplates. ***Edit: Looks like it is a Risdon, with the R on top. I'm pretty pleased with this score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Saunders Posted February 8, 2010 Share #7 Posted February 8, 2010 I believe if they're stamped on top of the toe then they are made by that contractor for a government contract. If the are stamp on the bottom then they are made by that contractor for Colt for a goverment contract. Example CS on bottom would be Colt Riddson and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doran Posted February 8, 2010 Share #8 Posted February 8, 2010 MS Little produced WWII era magazines also, marked L. The C-X letters on the baseplate bottom indicate sent semi-finished to Colt by the mfr whose letter is stamped on the top and finished and assembled at Colt. I have two stamped S C-R where Scovill likely supplied some baseplates to Ridson. This thread shows some examples of WWII contractor and Colt subcontract marked magaznes: http://forum.m1911.org/showthread.php?t=28256 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake_E Posted February 8, 2010 Share #9 Posted February 8, 2010 What a find, nice score mate, it's a carbine pouch, BUT sometimes they did use them as pistol magazine pouches, so it may have actually been used as it sits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig_pickrall Posted February 8, 2010 Share #10 Posted February 8, 2010 It may be true that it was used as a .45 mag pouch late in it's life but you can see the outline on the inside flap where it spent a good part of it's time as a carbine mag pouch. The bottom plates are outlined in a rust pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotlead Posted February 9, 2010 Share #11 Posted February 9, 2010 I'm with Blake, the size and pattern of the rust marks says 1911 mags to me, particularly on the edge of the flap on the right side, the rust/wear pattern there shows that it's been pulled tight on a pistol mag for some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCUSTER Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share #12 Posted February 9, 2010 THANKS GUYS FOR THE COMMENTS. HOW DO YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE .45 POUCH & THE CARBINE POUCH? GLENN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted February 9, 2010 Share #13 Posted February 9, 2010 WWI .45 pouched had two lift the dot snaps. WWII pouches had an angular flap (like a grown up garand belt pouch flap) with one lift the dot snap. I think they also had a metal riser that stuck the peg for the left the dot snap out away from the pouch so that it wouldn't be difficult to snap shut if it was empty or had one mag in it. Postwar pouches have this feature, but are green and ave ALICE clips. The biggest give away is the proportion of the mag pockets. They are very tight to the 1911 mags. Some Marine Corps Carbine pouches have the angular flap, however, but are usually marked less, have wider mag pockets, and lack the metal riser for the stud if that is a characteristic of the WWII variety as well. I've got half a dozen WWI pouches, but not a single WWII pouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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