Apaches in the late 1800's / early 1900's in France (part 3)

Apache's best equipment : brass knuckles, knives and revolvers…!!! or all in one !!!!

Nice 1900's revolver

Revolver/Brass knuckles and close-up

Other Revolver/Brass knuckles and close-up

Fabulous 1900's Brass Multi-purpose revolver

Homemade Brass Knuckles

Apaches in the late 1800's / early 1900's in France (part 2)

 

Some great pics of Apaches…Very fashionable style for gangsters, juvenile delinquants or proxenetas…

Apaches in the late 1800's / early 1900's in France (part 1)

By 1874 Paris was swarming with vagabonds. Consisting mostly of juvenile delinquents, these ten thousand or so ruffians would evolve into a new generation of street-fighter, banding into a gang which came to be known as the Apache. The word “Apache” (pronounced “ah – PAHASH”) is a Parisian term used to describe the French street gangs of the early 1900s. The era’s local newspapers often described the violence perpetrated by these gangs as synonymous with the ferocity of Apache Indians in battle. The typical French Apache was a young, lower-class, pimp-type vagabond with connections to the underworld.

Famous Movie "Casque d'or" story of a french prostitute in the "Paris Apache"

Apaches and anarchists during the "french commune"/1871

Apaches fight

Apache look

"Jailhouse don't frighten Apaches"

Women love Apaches !

"How we treat Apaches in France"

"Apaches way of life"

Good look for Forest rangers /Norfolk jacket

Great Norfolk model with classical buttoned belt on single breasted jacket…
"Many Forest Service men went into the armed services when the United States entered the war in 1917. Their association with allied troops abroad seems to have encouraged a widespread preference for a change in the official uniform to one based on a British military-style Norfolk jacket. A single breasted jacket, it had numerous variations and was already familiar in this country."…

Good look for Forest rangers /20's to 40's