Engraved German mess tin ( fantastic)

**model40** · 02-13-2008, 09:08 PM

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-13-2008 09:08 PM

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**Dimas** · 02-14-2008, 12:13 PM

Very nice mess tin! Looks like one cirrilic inscription as "ОСТЯК"

**Wesley's Dad** · 03-12-2008, 06:06 PM

Nice mess kit... It is amazing some of the trench art things that can be found and equally amazing what a soldier can do to pass the long hours. Dimas may be familiar with the story of a German bunker uncovered several years ago by the diggers in the Demyansk area I think?? This particular shelter had the floor completly covered in a mosaic of spent shell casings. They were pushed one by one into the soil floor "bullet end" down so that the pimer ends were still exposed.

Mike

**Dimas** · 03-12-2008, 07:30 PM

by Wesley's Dad

Nice mess kit... It is amazing some of the trench art things that can be found and equally amazing what a soldier can do to pass the long hours. Dimas may be familiar with the story of a German bunker uncovered several years ago by the diggers in the Demyansk area I think?? This particular shelter had the floor completly covered in a mosaic of spent shell casings. They were pushed one by one into the soil floor "bullet end" down so that the pimer ends were still exposed.

Mike

Yes, there was a German bunker, with floor made from TT (PPsch) shell casings
Unfortunately no pictures