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  • 29-11-2022 5:28pm
    #1
    itisnotgrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭


    This is an old leather with a belt and clasp on it. Looks like it holds letters or similar but unsure as to what it is or where it’s from. Any advice welcome. Pictures attached. Thank you. Bottom of it has G.Ford engraved on it.

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  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Is the back of it plain? Any markings, can you show the 'G. Ford' marking?



  • #3
    itisnotgrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭itisnotgrand


    Back has no writing on it. Except it has two slots that might have been to strap it to a pole



  • #4
    itisnotgrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭itisnotgrand


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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119936312#Comment_119936312

    Photos attached



  • #5
    wildwillow
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    Hard to see what size it is. Reminds me of a binocular case. It seems hand made so probably was designed to carry a specific object.



  • #6
    itisnotgrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭itisnotgrand


    No the bag doesn’t open at all. It has a slit the size of a letter box opening or smaller. It’s the same size as half an a4 page. And is an inch thick



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  • #7
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The openings on the back look like it was made to fit on a belt.

    it definitely has a military feel about it, but would have to have been to carry something flat and stiff. A clinometer maybe?



  • #8
    itisnotgrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭itisnotgrand


    What’s the round hole in the front for?



  • #9
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Does the opening go through so that perhaps something of whatever slipped inside could be seen?

    Might be worth flinging an email at a few museums to see if they have any ideas.



  • #10
    itisnotgrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭itisnotgrand



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119942975#Comment_119942975

    Yes it does



  • #11
    itisnotgrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭itisnotgrand


    So it is indeed a cilometer holder unfortunately without the cilometer!



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  • #12
    Alun
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    A military map case maybe?



  • #13
    Furze99
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120037924#Comment_120037924

    A clinometer would have been used by engineers and surveyors to roughly measure angles of elevation or depression e.g. slopes uphill or downhill along a road or on the land. There was a thriving 18 & early 19th century private survey industry in Ireland, that slowed down as the century went on. This because the British military made the Six Inch maps for the full country in 1830 & 40s, so the private work dried up. So could be civilian or military use, if the use of the case is certain.



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