Anyone know much about vintage camp blankets?

[Ops]

I have a few blankets that belong to my great grandpa but I can't find any markings on them. They're not a heavy wool. Some call them camp blankets online.

Google ai helped a little as far as trying to get what they were called. I'm going to say circa is before 1970

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[Tlock]

@Andy54Hawken could probably help. Your great grandfather had good taste in blankets. Id love to own all his blankets!

 

[Stomper]

Some of the REALLY older vintage ones may even still be infected with smallpox!

 

[Tlock]

Some of the REALLY older vintage ones may even still be infected with smallpox!

Syphilis.....

 

[drstrangelove]

Anthrax would be extra special.

 

[Stomper]

Syphilis.....

WTAF are you doing to your blankets?!

 

[Tlock]

WTAF are you doing to your blankets?!

Wellllllll.....

 

[Stomper]

Wellllllll.....

The black light tells all!

 

[Ops]

The blue ones seem to be esmond camp blankets

 

[GrayGoose]

WTAF are you doing to your blankets?!

Wellllllll.....

The black light tells all!

Isn't that what socks are for?

 

[Stomper]

Isn't that what socks are for?

 

[thorborg]

May be sleeping bag liners. My first down bag in the 60's was nylon inner and outer shell filled with eiderdown and while really nice when you were in it for a while, dang cold getting in it in the winter. So we used thin flannel liners, made expressly for the purpose, thin because of weight when back packing, but enough to take the cold edge off between you and the nylon, plus, it was washable after a long trek of a couple weeks, or even if longer while you were out as they dry really fast, whereas washing the down bag was a little trickier. Ours came with ties at the corners and the middle of the ends to tie it to ties sewn in the bag itself to sort of keep it in place, but I don't see any ties on yours.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Still looking up these blankets....haven't found anything too useful for the question here in the OP...sorry.

In regards to oft repeated story of smallpox infected blankets.....

Yes that did happen.

However....
Both the Hudson's Bay Company and The American Fur Company sent out runners to tell the tribes to avoid coming in the forts/ posts or to trade.
Sadly ...it was too little...too late.

Trading off infected blankets was not done intentionally.....
Killing off your client base...ain't a good business plan or model.

In fact , in the early 1800's....HBC attempted to vaccinate the tribes they were in contact with a small pox vaccine...
The same for the American Fur Company in the 1830's.
Again...sadly both attempts did not meet with success.
Andy