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    NOS late 1950s RAF straps for charity

    Hi All

    I hope Eddie won't mine me posting this here but it's a bit too specialised for SC and is really one for you mil watch boys.

    I support a project in Tanzania that helps people live independently of aid or charity handouts. One of the great things it does it build water butts -- storage tanks that collect rainwater off the roof and channel it through guttering and drainpipes into a massive concrete silo. This makes the twice yearly rains last. Having been over there and helped build one, I'm pretty passionate about it. (Black lives matter, right?)

    So . . . I've got, ahem, some NOS "RAF" type straps: one-piece pull-through nylon in dark blue. Genuine unused stock from the late 1950s.

    Since seeing Sir Edmund Hillary's Rolex on a 1950s nylon I became interested in the genesis and evolution of the NATO strap.

    Here's his







    These straps last and last and last -- unlike cotton canvas webbing (which is why I think we see so few AF0210 and similar).

    So I'm offering 25 lots of 3 straps: 2 @ 16mm and 1 @ 19mm (looks fine on 20mm bars as has some stretch). If you've got 1950s, 60s or 70s aircrew watch then I guess you'll want some. I hope so anyway because I've got nearly a hundred to shift.




    £15 will buy you a set of three. I'm happy to bear the cost of postage but if you are willing to pay it then the project will get even more. Obviously if you want multiples then let me how many you want.

    All of the money raised will go to the work in Africa; I'm happy to bear the cost of the straps. In fact, I think I can Gift Aid (20% tax reclaim) to the fund so if I sell them all then 25 x £15 (£375) + 20% (£75) = £450. An incredible amount!

    Some buckles are silver coloured; I'm assuming the gold tone ones are brass and will dull down in time to a nice patina. Don't request either as I just want to shift them! All straps have single fixed keeper in the same fabric which is a very uncluttered means of tucking the tail out of the way.

    So. Over to you, BMW @ tz-uk. There's 25 to shift or only about a dozen if some of you want two!

    A word about buying the seller: I've got a good name here (I think. Hope so anyway!) so feel free to check out my other posts etc. I'm also over at mwr and a few other forums. Just a watch nut like you guys trying to do some good in this world.

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    Good effort Olli
    Happy to help
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    John

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    Hi Ollie. Just to let you know your inbox is full – just got a bounce back on my last message.

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    These were made in the 1960-1970's I did a favor for a older watch collector who was not computer savvy and got a part he needed he offered a bunch straps for me helping him I only took a few could of took more he had a lot of them they were all odd sizes like yours all under 20mm gold and silver buckles and one had odd stuff molded into the nylon and a two piece still with a wrapper on it. I just took them to make him happy and threw them into the watch box. None were issued weird they were made for civilian watches you can see from that one label or made for the military market . Cool that your selling them for charity if you want these for it let me know and I will send them to you to ad for the sell for free.

    Last edited by River Rat; 31st January 2017 at 17:39.

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