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MODEL 1912 BACON BAG ISSUED WITH THE MODEL 1912
RATION BAGS: This scarce accessory to the Model
1912 Ration Bags (saddle bags) is seldom found in
collections due to a low survival rate, and as it is not
pictured in the 1912 Cavalry Equipments Manual, if you
are not familiar with what one looks like, you have
difficulty in recognizing it when encountered.
The Model 1912 Ration Bags, which doubled as the
soldier’s saddlebags when mounted and his backpack when
dismounted, carried the soldier’s personal effects and
food rations. This Bacon bag, as described in the
manual on page 26, “is an accessory of the ration
bags and is intended to carry the portion of a trooper’s
haversack ration of bacon remaining after he has broken
open the can and consumed some of it. Place the bacon
in the bag without the can…The enamel lining of the bag
has been analyzed and found harmless.”
This Model 1912 Bacon Bag shows no evidence of issue or
use. Measuring 7.5” by 5.5”, the bag has the full
length draw string, and still retains the complete
enamel lining which prevented the bacon grease from
soiling the other contents of the ration bags. The
enamel lining has crazed due to storage and exposure to
temperature changes through the years, and has lost some
of its shiny surface, but the lining is complete.
This is an excellent specimen of a scarce component of
the Model 1912 Cavalry Equipments and one that is very
difficult to find to complete your Model 1912 Ration
Bags.
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