Canadian Tent pegs/mallet???
 

Can any one offer pics about wooden military tent pegs and the wooden mallets involved? Just picked up this mallet/broad C arrow 1941. Odd shape? Wooden pegs in backround Canadian or American? Thanks Rob

Rob
I am used to a more rectangular material for the pegs, and a simpler mallet. If you check with Derk, I think he has origionals with his bell tent.

I have seen the hammers and pegs kicking around Westbourne.

I am talking about the hammer and pegs that came with the belltents and marquis tents mind you. There may well have been other types of pegs and mallets out there

Re: Canadian Tent pegs/mallet???
 

Rob, Canadian "pins" as they are properly called were rectangular in cross section, 16" long and 7/8" wide and usually were stamped with the date and manufacturer's name. Mine are stamped:

G.B.S. Co. Ltd.
Royston, Ont. 1942

I don't have the correct mallet, but would dearly love one if you or anyone else has one for sale. I initially used a light metal sledge but cracked a pin so I bought a vintage wooden mallet at a flea market which I now use. I'll include a couple of pics for you.

Re: Canadian Tent pegs/mallet???
 

The bag they came in:

Rob,

The mallet in your picture seems to be the traditional carpenter's mallet, rather than a camping mallet.

Still interesting in its own right, especially with the wartime markings.

British tent mallets seem to come with a octagonal head with steel re-inforcement rivets through the wood. Date stamp is either in small lettering hammered into the side of the hammerhead, or by a rubber stamp.
Helve is a push in fit through the head downwards, with a slight taper.
Sorry, making digital photographs and posting them here is beyond my capabilities.
Possibly canadian mallets are of the same design?

WDRob

Tent pegs
 

look like ones I have with a US pup tent from WW2 I believe. (It has two halves buttoned together, and neat folding wooden poles with brass sleeves and fitttings.)

In NZ in the early 1990's we used the same style round wooden pegs with our modern 1 piece 2 man tents. These pegs replaced black plastic pegs that proved useless!!!

Rob