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The one stretcher I have, while looks similar in design to a wartime stretcher that I purchased and later learned it was not are the stretchers with the reinforcing strapping on the sides to hold the canvas to the wood rails are stapled.
The wartime era stretchers have leather strips that are tacked. Other stretchers I have also use cloth or canvas strips but still used tacks to fix the canvas to the wood rails.
I later found one of these “ newer manufactured” stretchers marked with a “FEMA” stencilled marking on it which is the US department Federal Emergency Management Agency.