Few relics...need identification

[tudoro]

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[BrodieBartfast]

Number 5 looks like the exhale valve and filter attachment point, the 'snout' of a gas mask. Specifically, I believe it may be from a Czech CHEMA gas mask, or something very similar:



Number 4, I'd guess also gas mask related. Likely one of the buckles used on the elasticated head straps. If not that, a small equipment buckle of some kind. Unfortunately, I can't guess at what the others may be. There are many members here who have been detecting battlefields for many years. Hopefully they can be of some help.

B.B.

[tudoro]

Number 5 looks like the exhale valve and filter attachment point, the 'snout' of a gas mask. Specifically, I believe it may be from a Czech CHEMA gas mask, or something very similar:



Number 4, I'd guess also gas mask related. Likely one of the buckles used on the elasticated head straps. If not that, a small equipment buckle of some kind. Unfortunately, I can't guess at what the others may be. There are many members here who have been detecting battlefields for many years. Hopefully they can be of some help.

B.B.

Thank you ! ;-)
So, could it be this gas mask remnant a WW2 relic ?

[BrodieBartfast]

Depends where they were dug up. If it was in an area that saw combat, there couldn't be many other explanations for how a gas mask came to rest there.

B.B.

[tudoro]

Depends where they were dug up. If it was in an area that saw combat, there couldn't be many other explanations for how a gas mask came to rest there.

B.B.

It's about a former WW2 eastern front combat area ...

Which army used it ?

[BlackCat1982]

Spot on with the gasmask ID B.B.

[BrodieBartfast]

It's about a former WW2 eastern front combat area ...

Which army used it ?

Would have been used by the Germans. They would have appropriated Czech army gas masks after the annexation of the Sudetenland. They did the same thing with firearms, chiefly pistols. A great many variations can be found with German WaffenAmt markings.

B.B.

[tudoro]

So, any 'idea'/info/ID about 'pieces' nr. 1, 2, 3 and 4...?

[BrodieBartfast]

Number 2 might be some kind of sling swivel from a rifle. Looks very similar to the front swivel of an M38 Carcano, but could be from anything. It may not even be firearm related.

B.B.

[tudoro]

It could be CHEMA...BUT the colour of the mask is brown...AND the mask I found is...black (rubber; at least it looks like...). Is it rubber...the gas mask from your photo ??