Love the variety of artwork on this mess kit.  It's not often you see so much etching on a mess kit either plus the fact the sides are even done.  Nice one!

No disrespect but I don’t believe you’ve seen enough marked pieces truthfully for your logic.Your logic is very very flawed. You’d know this if you’ve handled a lot of field gear pieces. I’m gonna answer all your points. • UNIS markings were being painted well after the war into late 46. I’ve seen many UNIS marked pieces belonging to post war non combat guys. They even used UNIS marks in small numbers during Korea. So I can totally understand this being marked after Hawaii. I can pull pictures of examples if need be.   • It’s VERY common to see UNIS marks repainted and redone over top of each other. This is nothing new.   • There are tons and tons of sea bags out there with both UNIS marks and division insignias. There was no “rule” against this. This is a VERY common thing to see on seabags. I have some myself.   • I have seen m tons of Marines using their last name first followed by initials. This was most commonly done by early war guys. Nothing fake about that.   I can almost guarantee you whoever sold that bag has not even the slightest clue what a UNIS mark is and how they’d even paint it. The 3rd MarDiv UNIS chart is one of the biggest unknown charts out of them all. No one has fully developed it. So how is some random dude going to fake it without a chart to follow?