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    5L nirosta water canister - LW bomber crew?

    From last weekends fleamarket - been told this is for bombers?
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    I've never seen that one before in my life, but no detail of it resembles to WWII "canister-work".

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      #3
      These canisters pop up from time to time on ebay or on flea markets here in germany, mostly very cheap, sometimes descriped as "Bombercrew" "Paratrooper" or "Tankcrew". I don`t think they are ww2.

      Best regards
      Dirk

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        #4
        I've got one of those. I thought it was Luftwaffe, but the fact is it's made of steel not aluminium...Only marks or stamps are some letters on the back steel handle: 'D' on one side and 'D', 'F' and a 'T' on the other side, not as a makers code but in different positions, mess up. Painted some kind of 'feldgrau' with large white crosses on the sides and ' Trinkwasser 5l' on the back.

        Carles

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          #5
          Hi

          here's mine

          I am absolutely convinced that it is german WW2.... (I must have pictures somewhere)
          Never heared the bomber story.... IMHO just a 5 l Trinkwasser container



          Tom
          www.mp44.nl

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            #6
            But why are you sure that it is german ww2? Nothing, exept the chain, looks like german!

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              #7
              Originally posted by Theoderich View Post
              Nothing, exept the chain, looks like german!
              What about the german word "TRINKWASSER"...

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                #8
                OK, not german WW2.
                As i said, i often saw them the last years, i had 2 of them in my hands about 3 or 4 month ago on a local fleamarket, but nothing makes me think that is ww2, do you?

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                  #9
                  Like i said.. I must have pictures of this container in use... I don't remember where... was it a Signal or an Adler... anyway, as soon as I find it I'll post it

                  Tom
                  www.mp44.nl

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                    #10
                    Hello Tom,

                    Mine is just like your's (just a bit cleaner) Does your's have any kind of stamp or so?

                    Carles

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                      Last Year I saw some of them in a huge Swiss Army Lot. When I say huge I mean an old Steel Factory Hall 100 Meters long, filled up to 10 meters high.
                      they had about 50 of them in a crate, but the price was to high for me to sell them surplus.

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                        #12
                        I seen the cross and was also going to say swiss.

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                          Originally posted by cobra-2001 View Post
                          I seen the cross and was also going to say swiss.
                          You ever heard that a white cross indicates drinking water? - Or is this a "swiss-canister", too?
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                            Originally posted by uscob View Post
                            Last Year I saw some of them in a huge Swiss Army Lot. When I say huge I mean an old Steel Factory Hall 100 Meters long, filled up to 10 meters high.
                            they had about 50 of them in a crate, but the price was to high for me to sell them surplus.
                            Dont know where the other owners of one of those got theirs from - but I bought mine last weekend cheap from a german lady at a german fleamarket, togther with a german rifle cleaning kit and a german canteen.

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                              C'mon Patrick !!! you know as well as I that this is a very famous picture of the Swiss guards in Vatican city (on a sunny day of course)
                              A lot of swiss crosses here ......



                              sorry... couldn't resist

                              Now on a serious note.... Mathieu has also one in his museum in Baugnez, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't put something post war in there......
                              (and yes, I am aware of the fact that there are wrong items in a lot of musea around the world)

                              Tom
                              www.mp44.nl

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