Reproduction Wool Puttees equipment but it seems like maybe

but it seems like maybe something that was made in the field like a sort of trench art thing

Some pulls in the material and some odd seams along the waist

There are initials scratched in the bottom and the inside of the lid

he was sentenced to embezzlement by a Chemnitz district court: he was tasked with some kind of accounting work in a factory

Reproduction Wool Puttees equipment but it seems like maybeReproduction wool puttees. Reproduction of what? I don't know. They seem to be more Italian in pattern than German. Might be a WWI repro. I don't know where these came from or why I own them. Length: long. They are very long even for puttees. I don't know that they've ever been used, but they do have some storage wear general dirt.