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POLICE EQUIPMENT
The majority of the Victorian police and constabulary equipment was leather, from the default waist belt to the handcuff pouch and all manner of other items. The text below has a lot of links to the current range,
plus there are a few images of recently made products.
This main page is a placeholder for the default Snake-Buckle belt design & to use as a starting point to locate related accessories.
SNAKE-BUCKLE BELT
One of the most common Police issue belts from the Victorian era through to the mid-1940's was this black leather design with chromed Snake-buckle ("S" buckle) & single chromed size adjuster loop-buckle.
The belts have a range of size adjustments to allow for wear over different items of uniform, etc.
The design utilises a fixed buckle loop on one side, with the adjustable side using the movable belt loop.
An original period belt, with old Bullseye Lamp & new lamp protector pad fitted
RELATED ACCESSORIES
A matching leather pad that fits onto the belt to stop oil from the old Bullseye lanterns from staining the tunic & burning the wearer is available (this accessory is quite time specific, as the use of oil in the lamps died off with the adoption of battery models) as is a belt pouch for the Hiatt handcuffs.
As well as supplying the plain black Snake ("S") buckle belts, the leather Bullseye oil-lamp protector pad & the leather Hiatt cuff pouch, the early pattern of Cutlass Frog is also an option.
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Not strictly "post-WW2" but a popular Police item which fits here is the Dog Handler style of lead.
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If you know of other older period accessories and wish for replicas to me made, please contact me with information and details of the item, whether from period advertisements, museum exhibitions, auction listings and any similar reference sources.
Embossing stamps can be sourced for collar numbers, regional insignia, etc.
A recent order - Cutlass Frog, a pair of Hiatt handcuff cases & a pair of the Bullseye Lamp pads.
.....not a clue about the wooden rattle....!
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