Water Bottle Base marking

[Ben Evans]

Gents

One of interest for you, I dont know as I am a newbie to equipment. I have seen this on the base of a water bottle it says "Aluminium pur Menesa" dont know if its an original marking but I found a site which says these were made by Metallindustrie GmbH Neunkirchen Saar (Menesa) and the aluminium pur is French. Can anyone enlighten me please?

Cheers

Ben

[Ben Evans]

It also seems to have a big number "1" stamped underneath it

[Ben Evans]

And on the cup and MN 43 on it. So the MN short for Menasa?

[Ben Evans]

Nobody any ideas?

[BlackCat1982]

Correct MN does stand for Menesa. It made feldflasche for the Germans during the war, not seen one so marked before and would say it is post war domestic/camping gear.

[Ben Evans]

Correct MN does stand for Menesa. It made feldflasche for the Germans during the war, not seen one so marked before and would say it is post war domestic/camping gear.

Could be but the cup is marked MN 43 with the Menasa marking on its top and the bottle marked as above

[Ben Evans]

There is a great 5 page thread on the WAF ref this maker, some reckon its its Max Muller Nurnberg

[BlackCat1982]

Max Müller, Nurnberg did not make metal items afaik, they made leather items and their maker code was bmd.

[Danmark]

Like with the RBN codes, the makers name would NOT have been on anything by 1943 to avoid allied bombing .

[Edward Lionheart]

Hello.
The " MENESA " and " Aluminium Pur " in french would be very much out of place on some german WW2 piece of equipment.
The answer is simple : it is post-war german made stuff for the french army in order to pay back the war damages caused by our always agitated neighbours.
At first the MENESA logo was different as I already said so on Wehrmacht Awards, then at some point ( 1950 ? But for sure before the french army adopted the ugly M51 helmet that MENESA also made) it became " MENESA Aluminium Pur " which could be seen on military equipment as much as on sugar pots, coffee pots, mess kits / dishes for campers and so on.
Not only the double marking doesn't make any sense at all, but the " Menesa " part isn't even the one used for the first hybrid mess kits produced for the french army.
One of those two markings is a fake made to fool people and unsurprisingly it is the " MN 43 " part.
My war damages payback water canteen of course only shows " Menesa Aluminium Pur " and capacity markings, " 1 " meaning 1 liter.