Thought you guys might like to see these two lids found by a friend and I a couple of weeks back. Both show multiple layers of painting as their owners went through several arctic winters on the Murmansk front.
The lids, stuck one inside the other and tossed out of a bunker were only a few inches below the surface and under a small silver birch. The whole area is really boggy where anything iron has disintegrated but this little spot was higher up and out of the wet which helped their pretty amazing state of preservation.
We could see paint on one of the lids when dug but both seemed pretty solid so we knew these would stand a good chance and we weren't disappointed.
The SD M40 was painted camo white at least once, maybe twice and overpainted with what looks like panzer grey which also covered the eagle.
The lids, stuck one inside the other and tossed out of a bunker were only a few inches below the surface and under a small silver birch. The whole area is really boggy where anything iron has disintegrated but this little spot was higher up and out of the wet which helped their pretty amazing state of preservation.
We could see paint on one of the lids when dug but both seemed pretty solid so we knew these would stand a good chance and we weren't disappointed.
The SD M40 was painted camo white at least once, maybe twice and overpainted with what looks like panzer grey which also covered the eagle.
Wow!
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