One more camo canister from the Italian campaign of war 1943-1945

[Mike70]

This camo canister with gas mask was found in Rome at a flee market in the 50's and it is 100% original.
It was part of a big collection of an almost 80 years old collector now, from whom I also had two more camo canisters very well preserved, found in the same circumstances, one of which I also posted in 2012 and which I than both sold.

There is another thread titled GAS MASK CAMO MUSTARD SCHEME from December 2015, this is the link to it:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=836988

This thread shows a camo canister very similiar to mine and which made me decide to make this thread.

I have seen a few German camo helmets which have the same kind of camo paint.

Thank you.

[Mike70]

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[anmarlodz]

Not orginal painting IMO. Your canister is early type of canister ( made till 1942 ) which has missing the internal sheet metal and is painted "mustard' even in places ( under the sheet metal which is missing ) where it should be factory green ( all canister till very late 1944/ early 1945 were factory painted , depending from period, in diffrent shades of green ).

[Mike70]

Not orginal painting IMO. Your canister is early type of canister ( made till 1942 ) which has missing the internal sheet metal and is painted "mustard' even in places ( under the sheet metal which is missing ) where it should be factory green ( all canister till very late 1944/ early 1945 were factory painted , depending from period, in diffrent shades of green ).

Hello Anmarlodz,
I am just kind of surprised by your ingenuous comments.
In case that you do not know, the Italian Campaign of the Second World War started in summer 1943 after the Allies disembarked in Sicily and opened a new front of war which they gradually pushed towards the North along the southern part of the Italian peninsula, afterwards making it through the legendary battle of Cassino and other ones, till Rome.
The German troops that the Alleis were fighting there were equipped with any kind of material which had been produced since the foundation of the Third Reich in 1933.
The Germans were using any kind of military gas-mask canisters and helmets that had been manufactured untill that moment. Many of those German troops were also coming from Africa. During this entire campaign it was a common procedure that Germans would camouflage their helmets and gas-mask canisters on the battle fields by painting them with the brush or spraying them with paint which had a coulour that would match the one of the landscape, so in this case it was a sand colour, a tan colour, a mustard colour, in different tones and nuances. This is why this gas-mask canister is camouflaged like that. The missing metal sheet that you are refering about: it is well known by all experienced collectors that that sheet would sometimes get damaged and therefore it would be in some cases removed by the soldier, and this is exactly the case. This canister was camouflaged after that this internal metal sheet had been removed. If you look at the link that I have indicated at the beginning of this thread, you will find another German gas-mask canister which has also been camouflaged inside. As written in the beginning of this thread, this camo canister comes from the same old collection from which I had also the camo canister which I posted in 2012: you Anmarlodz, had made me an offer for that camo canister of about 400 Euro and I do not wonder why I did not accept it. I wish I could still find nowdays camo canisters like the one that I have posted here. Thank you.

[odin007]

hello,
i am agree with anmarlodz, IMO i don't like it.
there is no aluminum inner sleeve and camo inside it ????

[hagen.191]

hello,
i am agree with anmarlodz, IMO i don't like it.
there is no aluminum inner sleeve and camo inside it ????

Agreed. Not for me...sorry!