Army Surplus
Army surplus items from World War II were everywhere when I was a kid. We'd go down to the Sunny's Surplus Store and buy all kinds of old military stuff. (In fact, Sunny's got its start by selling nothing but left over U.S. Army gear, and only later started carrying other foreign military goods and commercial camping gear as the old WWII stuff got scarce. As I write this Sunny's is finally going out of business after over 50 years.) I got this surplus canteen (dated 1945) to use while camping with the Boy Scouts. The canteen cup (dated 1949) I bought when I was about 12 for 15 cents from, of all places, the thrift shop at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. If you look closely at the cup, you can still see the price marked on the side in grease pencil. I have never been able to scrub it off entirely. The canteen and the cup have served me well over the years. (Click here and here and here and here to see them in action.)
Army Surplus
Army surplus items from World War II were everywhere when I was a kid. We'd go down to the Sunny's Surplus Store and buy all kinds of old military stuff. (In fact, Sunny's got its start by selling nothing but left over U.S. Army gear, and only later started carrying other foreign military goods and commercial camping gear as the old WWII stuff got scarce. As I write this Sunny's is finally going out of business after over 50 years.) I got this surplus canteen (dated 1945) to use while camping with the Boy Scouts. The canteen cup (dated 1949) I bought when I was about 12 for 15 cents from, of all places, the thrift shop at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. If you look closely at the cup, you can still see the price marked on the side in grease pencil. I have never been able to scrub it off entirely. The canteen and the cup have served me well over the years. (Click here and here and here and here to see them in action.)