Weird stamps on US canteen

[Bundeswehr]

Dear fellow members,

For a while now I have this aluminium US canteen from 1942, manufactured by A.G.M. Co.

However, recently I discovered by accident that there are some weird stamps on it. In fact there are two of them.

They read: -2541

The first is a little bit fainted, only the -25 and a part of the 4 is visible. But the second one is clearly.

Do you have any idea what this stamps could mean?

Greetings,
Bundeswehr

[rob214]

Most likely its a laundry number. Soldiers used the first letter of their last name, and the last four numbers of their asn to mark clothing and equipment. It would look something like this, X-####. It look like there is a, - in front of the 2541, the letter may have faded away over time. Look close, you may see it. Rob.

[Bundeswehr]

Thanks Rob!
That's new for me, because I thought that only the canteen covers are marked with laundry numbers.

Besides, on the cup there are scratches reading: "LIO8T" or "L108T". I have no idea what they mean, maybey the regiment?

[RH1941]

some guys marked everything with their stamps . just so they could say that's mine. You know how things disappear. Gary

[Bundeswehr]

Hmm yeah, still funny though. Saw it never before on a canteen itself.

Thanks for the info guys!!

[Ubique]

Sounds like the current Australian army practice to mark everything with the first three letters of the surname and first three of the regy number eg; ABC123.

Oz

[reneblacky]

Here's my example of a laundry mark for comparison