Soviet Soviet Messkit?

[landsknechte]

I'm guessing this messkit might be Soviet, judging by the colors. Can anyone confirm?

[landsknechte]

...and a couple more photos:

[perce]

Hi

Looks like a German mess kit to me -here's an image of another one in slightly worse nick than yours

Cheers

Perce

[David Gregory]

The bottom half of the first tin shown above looks like a post-war item. The lid may be also, but might be older.

[perce]

Hi

Here's a post war painted in wartime colours-looks like your beast

Perce

[Sergey]

Yes it can be but it is model of the eightieth years. Here the Soviet model of the fortieth-fiftieth years in typical Soviet military color.

[Sergey]

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[Belaruski]

At the museum in Auschwitz there is a room piled high with pots pans etc. that the prisoners brought with them. On the top is a Soviet mess tin like the one posted above by Sergey.

[Sergey]

At the museum in Auschwitz there is a room piled high with pots pans etc. that the prisoners brought with them. On the top is a Soviet mess tin like the one posted above by Sergey.

The form of a kettle in Russian army did not vary about 100 years. Metal has changed only.

[Enigma]

This is a moderen mess kit. I believe it is German in origin. At least the predecessor is German. The two numbers you find on each part is the year it was made. 80 will be 1980. (The same on all the WW2 ones I have had as well.) I was issued the same when I was a conscript and it was definitely not WW2. It should have an internal part as well that you can attach to the handle.

Kind regards

Enigma

[Sergey]

This is a moderen mess kit. I believe it is German in origin. At least the predecessor is German. The two numbers you find on each part is the year it was made. 80 will be 1980. (The same on all the WW2 ones I have had as well.) I was issued the same when I was a conscript and it was definitely not WW2. It should have an internal part as well that you can attach to the handle.

Kind regards

Enigma

Hi Enigma

You speak the truth a late Soviet boiler completely repeats a German boiler. Russian always studied at Germans. So was since Peter Great's time.Look history-Russian and Germans were friends more, than at war.

[Enigma]

It would be interesting indeed if these mess kits were made in Russia. I am almost willing to put BOTH my hands into the fir to defend the claim that it is a standard NATO West German mess kit. I have seen huge piles of them here in Norway while we still had an army. There are thousands made and the colour is the right one for the time period of its manufacture.

Kind regards

Enigma

Edited February 28, 2008 by Enigma