It has very nice braidwork. It's a bit too long, so we'll have to shorten it. I couldn't find anything that would show me what the actual English WWI officers' pistol-lanyards looked like, so we just did something that looked nice.
I've been searching for a historical lanyard as reference for about a year now. No soap. Not even searching under "Mountie" or even "Royal Canadian Mounted Police", because everyone knows Mouties have lanyards.
I've worked up two different ones, one has a sliding loop (a 4 lead, 3 bight Turk's Head tied back on its standing line and doubled) and a fixed loop (Double Chinese Button knot). Neither are quite what I wanted, but servicable. (And both have a single line from the neck knot to the loop knot (Bosun's Whistle knot).)
I did find this: http://www.acmewhistles.co.uk/xcart/customer/home.php?cat=12 (the one at the top) But I don't think it's right. And it's not a Turk's Head anyway. Probably a hangman's noose (which is a useful knot even when you're not hanging people).
Most importantly: Yours is nicer.
You know, I don't think there was just *one* type of lanyard, an "official" one. I think it's whatever they had tied up, either by themselves or they foisted the job off on the nearest Sergeant and took whatever he brought back.
Two things, only one in different colors: The British Sam Brown Revolver Lanyard: WWI Pattern http://www.ima-usa.com/index.php/cPath/16_24 scroll down please
British R.A.F Revolver Lanyard: WWII Issue http://www.ima-usa.com/index.php/cPath/16_144 same thing, only newer and blue
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Date: 2007-04-15 01:28 pm (UTC)I've worked up two different ones, one has a sliding loop (a 4 lead, 3 bight Turk's Head tied back on its standing line and doubled) and a fixed loop (Double Chinese Button knot). Neither are quite what I wanted, but servicable. (And both have a single line from the neck knot to the loop knot (Bosun's Whistle knot).)
I did find this: http://www.acmewhistles.co.uk/xcart/customer/home.php?cat=12 (the one at the top) But I don't think it's right. And it's not a Turk's Head anyway. Probably a hangman's noose (which is a useful knot even when you're not hanging people).
Most importantly: Yours is nicer.
You know, I don't think there was just *one* type of lanyard, an "official" one. I think it's whatever they had tied up, either by themselves or they foisted the job off on the nearest Sergeant and took whatever he brought back.
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Date: 2007-04-23 02:26 am (UTC)The British Sam Brown Revolver Lanyard: WWI Pattern
http://www.ima-usa.com/index.php/cPath/16_24
scroll down please
British R.A.F Revolver Lanyard: WWII Issue
http://www.ima-usa.com/index.php/cPath/16_144
same thing, only newer and blue
10 bux for either. (A loop with two slides.)