Unusual GERMAN tool- need serious help with this one

Years ago my father aquired a 1944 dot mauser rifle and a ww2 cartridge box. inside the cartridge box was a unuaual item. Inside was a capsul approximatly 3 1/2 inches long made of brass and covered in silver, this capsul unscrews in the middle and inside is a punch, blade screw driver, screw type awl and a cork screw. one of the sides has a slot that these tools fit into and when screwed back together it forms a T handle for using the tools. end of capsul is marked F.M. sprewerke AG Germany. i have never seen anything like this, and alot of military guys i have shown it to haven't eather. What it appears to be in my opinion is some kind of german military tool that was issued to troops, but what years is unknown. I have tryed every kind of internet search and keep getting information on P-38's by sprewerke. idea of what years it may have been made is totaly unknown. has anyone ever seen anything like this??????? I currently have lent it to a friend who does military shows so he is trying to find out what it is also????

What...No pics?

It sounds like a kit I recently saw for a pistol, but now of course I can't remember where I saw it. Try to get a picture.

will post pictures tonight

Field dental kit???? shot in the dark !

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Originally Posted by phillyriverrat57

Inside was a capsul approximatly 3 1/2 inches long made of brass and covered in silver,

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Silver (plated?) does not sound like military equipment. And it is almost certainly Spreewerke

Patrick

P.S: is that perhaps nickel plating?

Is that a cleaning equipment like that?

SPREWERKE is the spelling on the item, not with 2 e's, and i am fimiliar with tabaco can cleaning kits. the one i have is cylindrical, and yes it is probably nickle

OK how the hell do i load pics???

Do what I do............. email 'em to Badger and ask him to do the necessary!

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Originally Posted by phillyriverrat57

SPREWERKE is the spelling on the item, not with 2 e's, and i am fimiliar with tabaco can cleaning kits. the one i have is cylindrical, and yes it is probably nickle

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I hope you manage to get some pics posted. I have found several instances of non-German texts with the misspelling Sprewerke, but no trace in German of a Sprewerke. Furthemore, all German substantives start with a capital letter, so it would have to be Spre... not spre...

In this connection, may I plead with all those who present unnown markings for identification on these forums: if you cannot produce a photo, then reproduce the text or markings as accurately as you can on the keyboard. This means using capitals, spaces, points, commas and dashes as closely as you can to the original. "sprewerke" cannot be a German noun, so something has been misread, mistyped or abbreviated. Or it is not German (e.g. an imitation).

But these days, it really must be possible to beg, buy or borrow a digital camera and make a couple of good photos!

Patrick
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Originally Posted by phillyriverrat57

OK how the hell do i load pics???

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There are two means to add photos here and they're not that difficult to do once you do it.
There are links to detailed tutorials with pictures where to 'click' in the sticky section above, but here they are directly.

How do I upload pictures to my posts for storage on milsurps.com?
How do I show pics from Photobucket, Flickr, ImageShack etc. on milsurps.com?

If you have trouble following the HTML steps, there is a PDF at the bottom of each you can print out and keep it next to you while learning the steps to show photos.

I hope this helps,
~ Harlan

here are the pictures. kit contains a blade screwdriver, a pointed all, a second awl as shown with screw threads and reamer and a cork screw

Thanks for the photos. I do not think that this is a military item. I had a gadget like this when I was a boy - it is the precursor of the modern idea of a hex-bit screwdriver with a set of bits in the handle. To settle the question of its origin, I would still like to see a close-up of the marking with the mysterious "sprewalde".

Patrick
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Tool reads as follows F M Sprewerke A G Germany

pat, not spreewald----- SPREWERKE

Spreewald is a place in Germany, phillyriverrat57. I think Pat just slipped up when he was typing.

Spreewerke is well known for manufacturing P-38 pistols. I understand Pat's curiosity. Would you mind taking a photo of the marking?

Thanks,
~ Harlan

i dont know what it is, but there was one among my great-uncles effects when he died around 1962. He was german but not military.

printing is very small and nickle keep me from getting pictures up close