Finally managed to get a real one (thanks Julien). Unfortunately, it is missing the strap. The hunt continues...
Hello everyone. I see that Dean Corso's bag has been already discussed here, but, if I am not mistaken, there is a crucial detail about it that hasn't been mentionned yet.
If there are roughly three known types of musette modèle 35, the third with the leather rims replaced by cotton fabric being extremely scarce, there are also several types of straps.
The first type, shown here, very well made and of course far too expensive,is the scarcest of them all :
The second type is just a cheaper, easier to assemble version of it. The third type ( the one in the background ) has a very distinctive hook meant to fasten more efficiently the musette when it is carried hanging from the belt.
From what I have seen in the movie Dean Corso's bag is fitted with a second type strap, which seems reasonnable as it is the most common variation of the three.
People who are in desperate need of a strap may have an opportunity to find one on an impractical experimental musette bag that was tested as soon as 1945 and that can be rather easily found on french auction web sites as no one quite knows what it is. Here comes a picture of the thing, that is obviously an improved ( or at least that's what it's creator thought ) version of the 1935 model :
Even if some of these M45 bags were attributed to soldiers during the Indochina war they are not typical so they are still very affordable...