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Old 15-12-10, 05:10
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Originally Posted by cletrac View Post
I found a well deteriorated original canvas cover for a 1B1 off a C8 and this is the stuff they had for windows. There's 32 threads per inch and the material is stiffer than canvas but it is cloth and it seemed to be a lighter green than the canvas. The piece in the pic is about 2 inches by 2 inches.
The window mesh on British 8 cwts was apparently a woven brass material , or copper .
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