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Richard, many thanks for your detailed explanations! I am very grateful to you for help.

Richard, EX-54 covers have "official model name"? ( for example, as in most models - "Cover, Canteen Ex-54"), or they were considered to be experimental, and did not have a "name"?

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Richard, many thanks for your clarification. I have nowhere else could not find such accurate information on any site or books.



Yes, when I was looking photos of the Civil War soldiers with...

Richard, I am very grateful to you for your amazing knowledge that you generously share with us. I did not know that this cover had many varieties. I have a picture of the "first cover"( with ...

Richard, thank you for an interesting explanation. I do not quite understand one point:



That is to say that since 1911, these buttons ("Rimless Eagle Snap" ) are installed first on this type...

Richard, could you tell in what years in the "army" M1910 cover buttons have been replaced by LTD-fasteners?
I know, that these were the first -

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next - "Rimless Eagle Snap" without a...

Richard many thanks for your reply, I was very interested to learn about these canteens!

Richard, Thank you for your detailed and in-depth response, I read your text with great interest, as a "fascinating book".

I do not quite understand, what a cover is meant?

Richard, thank you very much for the detailed explanation and for the very interesting documents. Now, thanks to you, many nuances become apparent to me!

I have question - belt hook on the all...

Yes, I understand, that I ask a lot of questions. The fact is that in most forums I was not able to find a really precise answer to some questions ( and I was very interested in the history of all...

Yes, I have read this theme in another forum, and therefore I wanted to know your opinion. In various forums, there are many opinions about the camouflage covers, so it's quite confusing for a...

Yes, thanks, indeed, I was inattentive, and I did not pay attention to the method of fixing.


You mean this cover?

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Thanks, Richard! In this text, we are talking about a this cover, Safariland production ?

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"WOODLAND

NSN 8415-01-478-0270, 8415014780270
COVER,CANT,2QT,WDL

Darren, thank you for the clarification.

Darren, many thanks for answer!

Richard, tell me please, this "tan" cover is "commercial"? it does not have DLA letters:

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And this one, "5-color", seems "right"?

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Perhaps, the sample "seamed" - an test / experimental, etc.

Thanks! I thought this is the current issue, without "horizontal seam"?

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Many thanks for answer!

I understood, canteens - only olive green. But covers these canteens ( tan color) can be considered as the "army"?

PS When I was looking for information on the canteens,...

I have a question for "post WW2" "insulated" canteen. In which year began its release? I read, that in 1959, this is true?

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"Tan" 2 quart canteens - are the "official Army model" or not?...

Richard, many thanks for the detailed answer and your continued support!

Excellent illustrations! Since "my English" is very bad, the drawings and manuals are very helpful to better understand the written text. Besides, I always very interesting to see the old documents...

Thank you very much for your detailed description! Over the past two days, with your help, I learned a lot.

I would like to clarify a little bit. It turns out, that all canteens, were issued from 1858 to '1910 (before the M1910) did not have official names?
it's just a "canteen", there are "no...

Thank you very much, I thought that there is any standard covers templates. Unfortunately, neither this magazine "M.С. & H" nor a copy of the article Mr. Coates I was not able to buy or find (I tried...