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04-03-2014 03:53 AM
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Your shovel is typical of the Europe types made after the German model from the 1890;s and that is where the identification problem lies I don't think it shows any signs of German WW1 or WW2 in the way of construction lack of folded ears or welding ww2 models but the question what country? purely a guess but to me it is like French ww1 and early 30s make shovels or ET's it is also similar in the rivits and handle to the so called "Wolf head shovel" so named as they have only a wolf head as a mark. They are still not identified to what country. Hopefully someone will write a good book on them and end a lot of mysteries Fish's old feld gear book from the 80's did show a lot of other Europe makes. timothy
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Thanks Timothy. No matter what it is, it's pretty cool. Hefty piece of metal. Would imaging the damage it would do in a trench or close combat.
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Thanks Timothy. No matter what it is, it's pretty cool. Hefty piece of metal. Would imaging the damage it would do in a trench or close combat.
Oh and they used them for that MAP Germans carried and reissued a varity of captured models and yours could be one of them I have seen period pictures of them Austrian pointed, French, Russian and Polish Czech make were used by the Wermacht. timothy
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Great help Timothy. Thanks!
Michael
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Hi it is Finnish made Billnas is a Finnish company now part of the Fiskars company
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Finland makes sense I have also seen a lot of the Russian Imperial spades in SA marked carriers come out of finland that is similar in construction to this one. Will put this in my data base thanks for the ID Kradman. timothy
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Hi Timothy no problem glad i could help ,you see alot of Finnish marked Imperial Russian items as Finland was still a pat of Russia up until 1917 so alot of items were left in Finland and then used by the Finnish army and also alot of Imperial items were taken as war booty in the Winter War as the Russian were still issuing ww1 dated kit to the troops then , i have found alot off ww1 Russian items on Winter War battlefields over the years
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