robinb Posted March 30, 2015 Share #1 Posted March 30, 2015 Found this today at an antique mall. Typical M1885 mess kit but marked inside of the lid and on the bottom: C H Safken Co E 2nd Regt Nebr Inf Chickamauga Park Georgia August First 1898. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyCanteen Posted March 30, 2015 Share #2 Posted March 30, 2015 Nice find Robin. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=safken&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=13422907&df=all& RC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinb Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted March 30, 2015 Thanks for the link! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyCanteen Posted March 30, 2015 Share #4 Posted March 30, 2015 No problem Robin; that is a great find! Thanks for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAST Posted March 30, 2015 Share #5 Posted March 30, 2015 Very nice find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyCanteen Posted March 30, 2015 Share #6 Posted March 30, 2015 It's nice to see a fully identified one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayhawkhenry Posted March 31, 2015 Share #7 Posted March 31, 2015 Very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evets Posted June 3, 2015 Share #8 Posted June 3, 2015 Yeah, nice find. It's particularly interesting to me to see a dated one to ascertain which style of the M-1874 meat can was used when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayhawker353 Posted March 29, 2016 Share #9 Posted March 29, 2016 Neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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