ww2 Intrenching tools
[IMG]jpeg Image[/IMG] Lately i was looking in war relics and saw a post dioscussing german and swiss e tools after a brief search i began to look thru my collection and discovered a swiss entrenching on one of my german ww2 mannaquins,. It was exactly described as a swiss tool right down to the makers name whic in my case was fash 43. I noticed that a lot of these type E tools have been sold as orignal german ww2 issue spatens. embarrassed by what i discovered i immeaditly began looking for a replacement orignal and purchased a modest one from militaria 1944. It is a good exampel with makers logo and date 1941 and satisfied i replaced it in the empty case to my mannaquin. This swiss tool has permeated a lot of collections and has even become the model for the century 21 german 1/6th scale dolls just to point out how far they have fooled the collecting community. I thought for the sake of some not unlike myself to show the suttle differences between these tools. I also have a us entrenching tool ammes made and what was siold to me as a ww2 russian e tool of which im not really certain looks a lot like a german ww1 tool to me so i need your help on that if you will.
