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[General Apathy]

 Toothbrush_Park_Avenue.jpg   94.14K   24 downloadsGI-Cop / Martyn, I think you should stop hanging around with those sailors, no joking aside that's some very nice stuff you have there, and lots of it different to the Army items.

I am attaching a photo of an unissued toothbrush the last one in the carton of issue, the handle is marked up ' DuPont - Park Avenue - Bristled with Nylon'. What was really interesting for me was to actually dig up the exact same manufacture brush in Bastogne about five years ago. So I keep these two in the carton to show pre-issue and an issued one. Cheers ( Lewis )

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Hello again to everyone, thought you may like to see some WWII razor blades, this is not all there were during WWII, I do have a few others but can't lay hands on them at present.

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In my collection I have a set of unused WWII 'Ear Wardens', when I opened the carton last year to look at the contents I found an extra carton flap with the name of the lady who packed it 60 odd years ago. I think she had included it as a way of finding a pen friend in the forces. The lady's details are ' Clara Martucci, 1914 ???????, Erie, Pa'. Sorry I cannot make out the street name. I did contact some young lady at the 'Erie Times' but I don't think she could grasp the story that it had taken 60 odd years for this lady's little morale booster to come to light. I would have loved to follow it up and return the item to her children if they could be traced, or does anyone in the group know a reporter at the Erie Times that would like to do a little story on this one. Have a look at the attached photo image.

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A few more little items that I have dug out for showing. Most of it will need no explaination as will be seen. The one item I would like to mention is the black plastic razor in a white carton, notice the small red-cross on the end flap, I think these sets were handed out by the red-cross to servicemen that had lost their own sets. There was no plastic case for it and there was only one blade in the carton, something like an emergencey set or something.

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[rrobertscv]

This was the one my uncle carried in Europe. Most of the containers still have contents in them.

[Jeeper704]

Some small items I have;






"American Red Cross - Fauquier County, Virginia".

Erwin

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Here is a tin of WWII boot polish specifically for Marine use.

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I am attaching a photograph of WWII U.S. Army combs. This will help illustrate the designations' Standard', Substitute Standard', and ' Limited Standard'. In this case it is ' 'Substitute Standard'. The stock numbers are identical, however logically I believe the longer comb to be the earlier issued example, this was more costly to produce due to the length and the ' gold block' lettering on the side, it was made of brittle hard plastic. The shorter one is made of softer plastic and has ' Un-Breakable' molded into the side, and does have some amount of bend to it.