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Prop question

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:46 pm
by eeyore
Anyone every notice the item that hangs from the rail next to the kitchen or the stair rail, that looks like a semi circular shaped purse? It is tan in color and has a knob like shape protruding from it. I have never seen anyone holding it. On another forum someone suggested it might be a binoculars case but it seems too wide and too short (top to bottom). I am sorry I can't list the episodes but it is from the earlier seasons.

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:24 pm
by Sam
eeyore,
The bag was seen in numerous episodes,this from "Mad Buck Gibson" As you said it doesn't look like a binoculars case.It does look like a purse.

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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:04 pm
by J.J. Walters
Magnum with a "man purse"? No way! :)

Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:52 pm
by IKnowWhatYoureThinking
Could it be one of those devices that is a drinking bladder? I could never see Magnum with a murse.

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:12 pm
by rubber chicken
Sounds like a good question for Rick Romer. Here's a closer shot from the same scene, with the second picture brightened a bit:

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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:18 pm
by eeyore
I believe I did mention it to Rick but I was so vague he couldn't help. Even close up this looks like a really odd "whatever". It looks flat and there is a buckle on the strap and the knob like protrusion looks like a stand up "ring" of some sort.

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:51 pm
by ConchRepublican
Maybe a canteen carrier or bladder of some sort?

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:25 pm
by eeyore
Thought of that, I wondered if it was some sort of military issue?

Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:58 pm
by IKnowWhatYoureThinking
Should we offer a free tour by Island Hoppers to the first correct guess?

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:04 am
by Steve
I say it is a pre-"double beer can hard hat" contraption wherein Magnum straps the device on and sets his longneck in it........Probably while lounging on the hammock.......

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:46 am
by Carmen
:D Steve

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:17 pm
by wind4fuel
It's used for deepsea fishing rods, you put the butt of the hand in the round part and you can get more leverge on the big fish. You ware it in front like a belt.

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:24 pm
by eeyore
Wind4fuel wins!
Thanks for the info. I live in Florida. I
Should have known what it was. I suppose
If I went on private charters instead of
Head boats I would have!

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:15 pm
by wind4fuel
They are called fighting belts. The one in MPI must be old it's made of leather, something Hemingway would have used. I would say it's pre 1940 the newer one's are white plastic. :)

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:27 pm
by eeyore
Ha! That explains why it didn't register. This has had me stumped for years. Thanks again