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RKKA Shovel 1938 in great condition

Article about: Few days ago I have received this wonderful "Comintern" entrenching tool. The bluing of the surface looks great in nature! Beside the year are 4 additonal letters stamped on the bl

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    Few days ago I have received this wonderful "Comintern" entrenching tool.

    The bluing of the surface looks great in nature!

    Beside the year are 4 additonal letters stamped on the blade.
    Most likely "HE KO" for "не конд", which means something like "second choice quality".
    What do you think?

    Best regards,
    Austrian

    RKKA Shovel 1938 in great condition
    RKKA Shovel 1938 in great condition
    RKKA Shovel 1938 in great condition

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    Super Teil !!

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    Nice find

    Nick
    "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem

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    Nice example of a Red Army shovel produced at the Komintern factory (КОМИНТЕРН), originally the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory.
    If I am correct, they were produced in Kharkiv between 1936 and 1941.
    In 1941 the factory was transferred to the town of Nejvo-Shaytansky in the Sverdlovsk Oblast (НШЗ-Нейво Шайтановский Завод)

    I do not know what exactly the inscription NEKO (НЕКО) stands for, but I have seen this several times on Soviet WWII utensils. I suspect it means something like decommissioned or rejected.

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    Thanks Asjemenou, for the detailed info!
    Here is a 1941 specimen from my collection with a prefabricated "не конд" stamping.

    RKKA Shovel 1938 in great condition
    RKKA Shovel 1938 in great condition

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    RKKA Shovel 1938 in great condition

    In my collection I have only one object, which also has this inscription. The object is an aluminum Krasniy Vyborzhets teaspoon (Красный выборжец чайная ложка).
    By the way, it is "ne kond." (не конд.) and not "ne ko" (не ко) as I assumed earlier.
    Almost nothing can be found about this Russian abbreviation. Still, I suspect that the inscription means something like "decommissioned".

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