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Hello again.
Regarding the time period to which these mess kits might belong it seems clear to me that the black one, being mostly made of aluminium but with a kind of handle that didn't appeared...

To be more precise all aluminium M10 mess tins manufactured during WW1 I have seen so far have the molded aluminium handle fixations, whoever the manufacturer might be.
Those molded parts can be...

Hello.
I would have said the exact opposite regarding which mess kit is the oldest : WW1 aluminium examples were painted black, just as the early mess kits of political formations, and then Feldgrau...