M31 Mess Kit (alu)

[meyle77]

Here is my M31 Alu mess kit - top marked c&cw 37 and bottom esb 40. Comes with medium size equipment strap.

[Franz1944]

, nice with lots of paint. To bad it mismatched

[Adrian Stevenson]

Good honest item.

I can certainly relate on how these get mixed up. At our living history events we all eat out of the similar Soviet version of this mess tin: these are placed within a communal pile for washing up. Most of us now scratch our initials onto both halves, as otherwise, they get mixed up.

Cheers, Ade.

[Danmark]

This is how they got mixed up I reckon!
take off the lids, give your squad's bases to the mobile field kitchen to be filled with potato soup and .........
"damn, which one went where? ....... doesn't matter, there's a war going on!!!"

Dan

[Adrian Stevenson]

Exactly Dan!

[Mark K]

I do like the all alum earlier variations of the M-31 messtin myself the lower half of yours has the one liter markings pressed into the side .Iam not positive but I do believe they stopped this practice on the later war variations.
It would be very common I would think to have miss matched parts on messtins and other personal kit items hence the practice of engraving ones initials. I have a spork that has the initials MK scratched into them on the handle

Regards Mark K

[VolksJager]

My one and only tin is miss matched as well, both parts are named though, lol. Same two tone colour like the one to. Yours is a great tin though, a lot more paint than mine