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  1. JockBushveld

    Equestrienne

    If tall brown field boots (or sometimes brown top hunt boots), tan riding breeches and English tweed hacking jacket when showing my Irish Draft/English TB gelding at horse trials (eventing) counts, then I guess I do. Naturally, when I'm out walking the course beforehand, I wear my Akubra...
  2. JockBushveld

    Vtg Rucksack Shoulder Strap Question

    Thanks, Gijoe. That makes perfect sense.
  3. JockBushveld

    Vtg Rucksack Shoulder Strap Question

    I have a Swiss "salt & pepper" rucksack and a 50s (I think) Lafuma rucksack (very similar to the early Bergans), both of which have a strange shoulder strap configuration. Instead of the strap going unbroken from the shoulder to the frame at the hip, the left strap on both has a snap mid way...
  4. JockBushveld

    Show us your Vintage Rucksacks!

    Folks: I just received my early Christmas present to myself, a vintage Swedish canvas rucksack, and have a few questions for those of you in the know. I have looked through some of the threads here but didn't see what I'm looking for, but I do admit that I could have missed it. That said, the...
  5. JockBushveld

    What Are You Reading

    For my first post here I thought this might be appropriate (I hope it's not too long). I just started re-reading Jock of the Bushveld (arguably the best book ever written about a dog), written by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and copiously illustrated by E. Caldwell. My "new" edition was published in...

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