WWII Can Opener??

[carbinekid]

Can anyone confirm this as a WWII-era can opener?





Thanks

[ZAM]

Post war, 1960`s or 70`s, as it have a 4 digit zip.

Best regards
Dirk

[CWP]

Dirk is right.

[carbinekid]

Ok, thanks. I picked it up at an antique store for $10 so no big loss. I guess I'll clean it up and pass it along to a reenactor.


thanks again

[uscob]

2 digit was used from 1944 to 1961
4 digit was used from 1961 to 1993
5 digit from 1993 on
everything before 1944 was adressed only by the Name of the Place and the Area, like Blablatown in Franken or so.

[carbinekid]

Very good to know, thanks.

[JonB]

Just to add to uscob's useful Postleitzahl [=zip] information, of course Berlin had a 2 digit postal coding system in operation before 1944, in conjunction with points of the compass.

As one example, the Kreuzberg area was coded SO [=Süd-ost] 36.

Wouldn't want anybody to discount e.g. what might be a perfectly good helmet because the liner band is marked with a date before 1944 & Metall-Verarbeitungs-G.m.b.H. Berlin-Charlottenburg 2alpha+2numeric zip...
The same applies equally well to other items made in Berlin & marked with the maker name & location.

[uscob]

Maybe because Berlin was and is such a big place. Now we have nearly as much People here as in whole Norway.