{"id":1322,"date":"2020-08-10T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:24:47","slug":"true-surplus-swedish-bandolier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/true-surplus-swedish-bandolier\/","title":{"rendered":"True Surplus: Swedish Bandolier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A favorite item is the Authentic Swedish Bandolier.  Banana Republic was selling these “authentic relic” surplus bandoliers in their catalogs from Holiday 1984 until Fall 1985. UPDATE: Discovered the Bandolier was offered as early as 1979!! See below. <\/p>\n

From the catalog: “One never has enough pockets on safari. This leather bandolier with canvas insets offers five extras for film, matches, notepad, sunscreen, snacks, compass & trinkets. Handsome enough to hang on your wall when you get home.”<\/p>\n

The bandolier is a  Swedish Army Mauser ammunition bandolier. It’s very popular with Star Wars fans and cosplay enthusiasts because it was used as a belt for the Tusken Raider Sandpeople in the first Star Wars film.<\/p>\n

You can often find a few on eBay, and some even claim to be from Banana Republic, but without markings who can say?  BR marked their Swedish Bandoliers with a permanent ink stamp of the “Discovered By Banana Republic” logo they used on true surplus items. <\/p>\n

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The bandolier was first seen in the 1979 Fall Catalog #3! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From Fall 1985. The Bandolier was illustrated twice, with this being the more detailed rendering. This page is practically a colonialist cosplay catalog. If you are looking to invade the West Indies this is for you. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A favorite item is the Authentic Swedish Bandolier.  Banana Republic was selling these “authentic relic” surplus bandoliers in their catalogs from Holiday 1984 until Fall 1985. UPDATE: Discovered the Bandolier was offered as early as 1979!! See below.  From the catalog: “One never has enough pockets on safari. This leather bandolier with canvas insets offers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,79,263],"tags":[1120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8997,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/8997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}