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01-14-2010 09:47 PM
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Re: strange shovel?
Neat, all I can is its a german shovel. Clearly designed for digging.
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Re: strange shovel?
Hi and welcome to the forum!
This cannot be an item he brought home: Taiwan did not even exist as a State at the time. The shovel is a post war copy. It was a good design and many countries copied it.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: strange shovel?
My father was a medic in Korea, They used shovels just like that. I remember when I was a little guy he had one and he USED it. Anything that was too big to fit in the trash can got burried. He would bust that shovel out at the drop of a hat. I guess he got good at digging in Korea and never quite gave it up.
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Re: strange shovel?
you can buy them here at the fleet farm store for 5 bucks with leather case. they are military surplus from some time after ww2 some are german some are swiss etc. you can find all kinds of post ww2 surplus. they even have russian ww2 and post ww2 rifles for sale import marked of course about 200 dollars. other countries rifles too, depending on what gets bought by the supplier.
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Re: strange shovel?
Surely this Taiwanese copy is in fact a close copy of the American shovel in itself a copy of the original German design LOL
Nige
"Now, I've designed this like a collapsing bag ! "
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Re: strange shovel?
Hello,
Nige is right, that's a taiwanese copy of the M43 US folding shovel patterned on the M38 german one. After the war, many countries had they own version of this type of shovel.
Thanks
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Re: strange shovel?
Hi, I agree with the others. Here in Australia the Tombo brand folding shovels were commonly available in camping & outdoor disposal stores in the 1960's / 70's. Don't try digging too hard with it - the handles of the ones here were only softwood and I broke ours on a camping trip in the Aussie bush!
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