Surplus Ammo pouches

[Niner]

It used to be that when buying from Century International Arms any surplus Mauser or Nagant, of any version or origin at all, they would throw in by way of lagniappe, ammo pouches and often a bayonet. Pretty good plunder for a rifle that may have cost $50 delivered to your door. However, now days IMA-USA thinks there is someone, and there probably is, out there who would jump at the chance to buy two, not exactly matching, three pocket pouches for $250.

Item Description
Original Item: Only One Lot of 2 Available. These are very nice German WWII Naval-issue brown pebble-grain leather triple Patronentaschen (ammunition pouch), designed to hold stripper clips for the Mauser k98K rifle. This was the standard German infantry rifle throughout WWII for all forces, even the Kriegsmarine / Navy. These pouches would be attached to the waist belt, and would be attached to combat suspenders using the rings on the back. Each pocket holds two stripper clips of 5 rounds, so each pouch holds 6 clips, or 30 rounds.

The pouches are in very good, service used condition, and do not have any major stitching or leather issues. The leather does show some wear to the texture, but nothing major, and there are scuffs and overall wear. The internal separators are still present in all of the pouches, and all of the early war/late war pattern aluminum/steel rivets and snaps are sound. The pouch is fitted with a "D" ring on the back, and steel rivet studs on the bottom.

The back of the pouches are maker marked but very difficult to read on one, we can make out the 1942 date on the one pouch and 1939 (Franz Brehme) on the other. These markings can be hard to see due to the pebble grain texture. It also has a clear EAGLE / M
marking, indicating issue to the German Kriegsmarine (Navy). Rifles were still needed and kept on board, especially for landing parties.
This is a great chance to pick up a rare Navy marked k98K triple ammo pouch! Ready to display with your 98K rifle!

[Niner]

I pulled some of mine I had in file cabinet. There are some more around that I can lay my hands on pretty quickly and probably some more that are more hidden away. Some are for Nagants for sure and some for other Mauser versions than the K98K and no doubt some likely made for the Turk Army...maybe in Turkey. I've collected several Turk Mausers with pouches when they were the blue plate special of the day.

[Niner Delta]

$250 wow. .. .. I have some of the M/N that came with bayonets too. But no Mauser pouches.

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[Niner]

Here are a couple more unlike the ones shown before. The short and wide one is for the SKS reloads with stripper clip. The other single taller one I don't know what that was supposed to go to at the moment.