Wear-Ever camping pans (and an enamelled tin mug)

@Giri
Thanks for posting that information. Much appreciated. I guess that cup would have a story to tell.

John

 

Yes, ditto thank you Giri,
Our query shifts from Navy rum measure to Army. I of course credit Giri's "WW1" "German" connection to lead me to more info. At 1st, that second link of his had me scratching my head but a subsequent search came back to a link w/more info (in a thread where the SAME guy also posts!). This link is that and source for another view of maker's mark.
I am sure it is the same maker but a different green and maker's mark has subtle differences (note swords) not just the year.

I myself am unsure how to type the letters of the maker's mark inline (for addl search).
It does appear that the 17 at the bottom represents 1917, if so John's is 1916 or?
thx omc
tag @DAVE GIBSON

 

@OMC

From the link you provided above:

"S.& E. St.L. 16, 17, 18 (with crossed oriental sabers) for maker: "Stahl und Eisen St.Leon" (Baden-Württemberg)"

 

My BSA mess kit from 1984 circa.

 

What a research!
From a Canadian boy-scout mug to the mug of the German soldiers which gave them liquid courage before storming out of a trench in the middle of WWI.

Radler

 

I have one of the patented Dec7 1915 sets. Took me a while to figure out that if you flip the pot with lid upside down everything fits together.
I never got the fancy cotton twill sack but I did get the aluminum tin cup.

 

My mid-1950's American Boy Scout kit was all aluminum, even the cup. Burned your lips good on that!! BTW, the holes in the handle are there to have a long stick inserted so you could hold the fry pan over the roaring Scout campfire and not burn your hands. But the aluminum pan guaranteed everything would stick to the pan, that is, all that didn't fall into the fire when the pan rotated on the stick!.

Eventually I threw away the pan and aluminum cup but kept the "bowl" and the pot with its lid. They fit nicely into the US Mountain Cook Kit (for the M-1942 and M-1950 stoves) adding a bit of extra cooking kit there.

Tom