Hi: I'm new to this forum and am asking your wisdom on a military tool kit I fond at a yard sale in Iowa. I looked up the number and it's supposed to be for a "howitzer" but I don't have much more info than that. It's basically a canvas tool roll with leather tie straps that has a multitude of pockets for wrenches and screwdrivers perhaps, but what came with it was mostly Vlchek double open end wrenches.

What I'd like to know from the group is whether these wrenches were in fact part of the original kit and since many pouches are empty, what else was supposed to be in this kit..

I could post some photos of it just in case no one has seen one before. A guy told me that the "newest" it could be was WWI vintage due to the fact he knew that the leather straps were no longer used in WWII.

Anyone that can shed light on this would be greatly appreciated. Mr. Vlchek was a Czechicon immigrant from around the turn of the 20th century. Blacksmithing was his trade and eventually he started a tool business and was quite successful. I wasn't aware that he did contract work for the US government.

TIA

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