Hello,
Here are some questions i am having for a little while now, i am wondering if any of you can help me out with this one.
A year ago i found in the Luxemburg Ardennes a wooden ammo or spare parts box that is painted in light grey.
It is stamped with a FL number and the text Ersatz Plombeschrauben.
I always thought that the farmer that used it after the war painted it, it has the sandgelb tan color underneath it.
Last week i was going through my photo's that i took while visiting the museum at Beek and found a photo of a box for a searchlight that is displayed there in a similar color grey.
Yesterday when i was going through the site of Klaus Butchek i stumbled upon a ammobox that he has described as being Afrikakorps( due to the sandgelb color underneath the grey) It also has a paper label in it that says Nicht geeignet fur gesteuerte Bordwaffen. It this a indication that the box was used by the Luftwaffe?
So i am wondering if the grey paint is a wartime done thing...
Does any of you know something about these grey repainted originally sandgelb items???
Was it a common practice by the Luftwaffe(and perhaps Wehrmacht and even waffenSS?) that the sandgelb equipment is repainted to a grey?
A display of some of the findings from a year ago,amongst it is the grey box:
The photo of the box at the museum in Beek(Netherlands):
Some photo's from the site of Klaus Butchek:
And finally some detail photo's of the box i have in possession:
Here are some questions i am having for a little while now, i am wondering if any of you can help me out with this one.
A year ago i found in the Luxemburg Ardennes a wooden ammo or spare parts box that is painted in light grey.
It is stamped with a FL number and the text Ersatz Plombeschrauben.
I always thought that the farmer that used it after the war painted it, it has the sandgelb tan color underneath it.
Last week i was going through my photo's that i took while visiting the museum at Beek and found a photo of a box for a searchlight that is displayed there in a similar color grey.
Yesterday when i was going through the site of Klaus Butchek i stumbled upon a ammobox that he has described as being Afrikakorps( due to the sandgelb color underneath the grey) It also has a paper label in it that says Nicht geeignet fur gesteuerte Bordwaffen. It this a indication that the box was used by the Luftwaffe?
So i am wondering if the grey paint is a wartime done thing...
Does any of you know something about these grey repainted originally sandgelb items???
Was it a common practice by the Luftwaffe(and perhaps Wehrmacht and even waffenSS?) that the sandgelb equipment is repainted to a grey?
A display of some of the findings from a year ago,amongst it is the grey box:
The photo of the box at the museum in Beek(Netherlands):
Some photo's from the site of Klaus Butchek:
And finally some detail photo's of the box i have in possession:
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