Thank you Mervyn, that would exciting news. However I think some of the more modern materials on the inside, such as the plastic liner and perhaps the self adhesive sticker, as well as the rubber foam padding behind the leather band, seems to indicate that it could be somewhat younger than that. The absence of a manufacturers label is also strange. I was wondering wether it was perhaps manufactured in South Africa? Possibly it is only partly modified, it was also whitened as an after thought, the original color was khaki. The Badge while rather pretty is also a complete mystery to me.