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Just picked up a spoon and fork form 1917 and 1918 (WWI) Pretty good shape too.

Does anyone know the proper knife to go with this set? I assume a fat handle




Anyone else have some neat old utensils please feel free to share

(pics later)

There is a knife that goes with the set. PM me for an address of where to get one.

I'm looking forward to the pics. While I can't answer the question (though it looks like BlackDogBob has the answer anyway), I'm curious because I have a mess kit fork that doesn't have a date on it, and I'm not really sure when it's from. I've always figured it was WWII vintage, but actually have no idea. It has a nice big US stamped on it, but no date unfortunately.

Makes me wish I had hung onto more of these WW2 mess kits & utensil sets I had gotten from a warehouse of mil-surp I'd bought out back in 2014!

But I DO have this nice Pewter inlay fork & knife from The American Civil War - and it's kinda fun poking some hardtack in a metal cup of hot water with that little pitch-fork!

I bought a canteen as a birthday present for my late grandpa a while back. The canteen was dated 1918. The cover and cup were 1942 and 1944.

Great additions!

Ill have my pics up at some point today

Pics of my utensils
Left most spoon and top fork are the 1917 and 1918 (they are the only ones with a date also)
I took some close up but they are blurry (except one below of large spoon) ill try again with some sun in the future to get the markings

Name_not_found wrote:Just picked up a spoon and fork form 1917 and 1918 (WWI) Pretty good shape too.

Does anyone know the proper knife to go with this set? I assume a fat handle




Anyone else have some neat old utensils please feel free to share

(pics later)

I got you covered on the knife brother. I have a bunch of packages I need to get shipped out. Have a package to send your way. Will send you the one I picked up the other day and get another one next week when I go back to that store. He had several. Do you need the mess kit as well?

BlackDogBob wrote:

Name_not_found wrote:Just picked up a spoon and fork form 1917 and 1918 (WWI) Pretty good shape too.

Does anyone know the proper knife to go with this set? I assume a fat handle




Anyone else have some neat old utensils please feel free to share

(pics later)

I got you covered on the knife brother. I have a bunch of packages I need to get shipped out. Have a package to send your way. Will send you the one I picked up the other day and get another one next week when I go back to that store. He had several. Do you need the mess kit as well?

Thanks Bob!

Im all set on the mess kit