Help Identify A Leather Enfield Sling

Without a photo nd something to judge it by, pretty hard just to pull a name out of ye olde hat.

With that width, likely it would fit an early Lee-Enfield or something earlier.

Whether it's PROPER or not, I can't say. I have a leather sling on my SMLE Mark I*** and others on Martin-'Eneries and Sniders. This sounds closest to what I have on the SMLE, but likely it's wrong, anyway!
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The 1 1/4" slings were for the SMLE and later arms. Long Lees and previous arms used a 1 1/2". Leather slings were made in WWI&II as a substitute for web slings.
 
I see no reason wny this could not be a genuine item. During WW1 literally hundreds of small-scale businesses were dragged into the war effort making every kind of military accoutrement as well as small parts and spares for the service arms.

Skennerton lists over three hundred such companies in his book, but I can't find mention of J M & Co Ltd.

Walsall is a mainly industrial town in Staffordshire, England.

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Large numbers of these were procured in WW2, mostly for the Home Guard. Walsall was a centre of the leather-working industry at that time. At one time Walsall Council's website had some lists of leather working firms in the 20th c., but the links appear to be broken now. There is a Leather Museum in Walsall.
 
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