unknown metal quiver for optics or gun sight, ww1 / ww2 ???

[3CCC]

hello

got this metal quiver with web strap, there is a marked with "Gpu or Gpa. A.. Munt.", from what army and period is it?

thanx
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[me6_130]

It does look like a binocular case when talking about the shape. I had never seen this case but has a military look. What confuses me is the clip in the mid of the box. Any WaA or maker's stamp? Wasn't the GPU a kind of political police in the USSR? Anyhow, I don't think it might be soviet, as it would be written in Cyrillic.

Carles

[3CCC]

hello

there is no WaA or other marking, only the lettering...

greetings
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[Sgt Bilko]

I seem to remember seeing a WW2 US radio spares container in metal that many mistook for a binocular case - in which case the clip could be for a thermionic radio valve.

Or I could be way off beam....

[Steve B.]

I don't know what it is, but it is not U.S.

The strap is wrong for U.S. as is the adjusting buckle, the clasp, the color, and the markings.

[Mikedenmark]

I like to venture two possibilities:

1: WWI issue, possibly austrian, or maybe even french.

2: Eastern Europa, WWII or postwar. The highly pronounced "ribs" around it could point in that direction.

Or, with the clips inside, the suggested US valve container option may be right. Somehow it is too thin to hold the weight of a binocular.

[Sgt Bilko]

Here's the radio spares tin I was thinking of (supposedly a Battery Case for 8 BA-17 cells ) - totally different really;

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-WW2-...IAAOSwA3dYOcTA


This is going to be a hard nut to crack. So far we'd determined it's not US and may be WW1, WW2 or post war.

[me6_130]

Let's make it more interesting: 5$ for the one who finds out what it is (that's what my father used to do)

Carles

[Mikedenmark]

I played around with the colour saturation of the photo of the markings, and I think the last 3 letters, perhaps all 4, are handwritten.
.. Munt The height of the letters, their edge sharpness and non conformity to the first part suggest they were added.

After the capital A, there is a lower case "" and, I think, yet another letter.

Not that Gpo A\ something helps a lot.

Lousy box btw. You have to bend it to open it.
Even if it was french WWI, I am not sure they went that low. Colour do look like french blue.

[Sgt Bilko]

5$ for the one who finds out what it is

I think your money's safe!