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**Infanteer** · 05-11-2003, 06:34 PM

Hard to compare

Sean, it's hard to compare different items. For example, I have a couple of the bakelite artillery fuze containers that have fine threads just like my fat container and they are dated between 1938 and 1941. Suffice it to say that until I see a fat container with fine threads and a pre 1945 date I will consider them to be early post war. Still, it would be fun to 100% disprove one of these general rules

Steve

**WalterB** · 05-11-2003, 08:53 PM

I apologize for my ignorance here, but these containers were used to store butter, correct? Where they used to store anything else? There are references to fat containers, but why would someone want to store fat? Too cook? Sorry for the asinine questions.

**sean weber** · 05-12-2003, 12:26 AM

cool

Steve
I totaly agree

**hcliffe** · 05-29-2003, 08:41 PM

Had to bring this up for discussion again. My black butter dish that is pictured above has the fine threads, but only takes a half turn to open! This has been the identifying mark of an original as described to me, never discussion of the heavy thread. Confusing....

**Ruki vyerkh** · 05-29-2003, 11:30 PM

I'm with Walter B: I can't figure out, nor have I ever read, why it was so important that they carry such a thing - with whatever its contents were - when no other nation's soldiers I'm aware of had anything so distinctively comparable. Sign me: Eager To Be Educated.
- Paul in Ohio

**Simon O.** · 05-30-2003, 02:42 AM

Fat is and was used for cooking. Butter would have been a scarce commodity to say the very least so if they had anything it would have been either margarine or fat (lard?).

Regards

Simon

**Kai-Steffen M.** · 05-30-2003, 06:56 AM

the bundeswehr today still has brotaufstrichdosen (aluminium) because they think that fat is very important part of nutrition- when you talk to people who survived the war it semms the first things that arent there anymore are butter and soap ..

Gruß,
KSM

**hcliffe** · 05-30-2003, 02:25 PM

Check this out. I read a story once, written by a German soldier about his life on the Russian front. He told tales about soldiers getting into a state of lifelessness due to nourishment. He said when they get like that the cure was to get any kind of fat they could find; butter etc. melt it down and have them drink it. Under normal circumstances it would make someone sick. But not under these conditions. I would attribute this to their diet of soup, bread and whatever else.

**Ruki vyerkh** · 05-30-2003, 04:24 PM

Simon, Kai-Steffen, hcliffe:
Thanks for responding. What you say makes sense.
- Paul in Ohio

**Del Panfini** · 05-31-2003, 12:06 PM

Fat container: Postwar or not?

What is the going price for one of those butter dishes? They look like a nice little accessory. Thanks, DEL

Join Date: Dec 2024 · 05-31-2003, 12:40 PM

Del, I payed mine around 15 Euros. I would not pay more for one...

Weitze has them listed for 13 Euros

cheers

Jan

**Adrian Stevenson** · 05-31-2003, 12:57 PM

Hi Del, try "At the Front" they have them in stock at $9.99.
Here is a link:

http://216.205.92.146/g_persn_mess.htm

I paid £3 for mine here in the UK a few years ago.

Cheers, Ade.

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