Folding shovel

[patrick99]

20200825_211416.jpg 20200825_211409.jpg 20200825_211359.jpg Hello,

Is the left shovel original.
Thanks

[patrick99]

Nobody??

[MP44_tom]

Better pictures are needed ! Especially with the bend shovel at an angle of 90 degrees !

Tom
www.mp44.nl

[Austrian]

Left shovel is a german one.

[Matthew W]

I haven't seen yet replicas, but after the war the dutch army had near identical shovel. Check the width of the shovel, in original it is about 150mm. Postwar dutch's width is about 157mm. And we need photos of the angle between the handle and the blade when folded. If they are not parallel, it is original. There also should be some maker's mark, try to find it, it also may help.

[patrick99]

the screw is made of bakelite

[MP44_tom]

90 degree angle, definately dutch spade (post war)

indeed these also have bakelite screw (not the screw itself but the surrounding)

Tom
www.mp44.nl

[Kurland]

Left one looks original, right one post war Dutch.