Pair of Entrenching Tools

[Aragorn243]

Found these on a day trip to Gettysburg yesterday at a flea market. The first is a pretty run of the mill US shovel dated AMES 1944 in a well marked 1945 cover. The second I thought was more unusual. The seller called it a cheap reproduction but I'm not thinking so. The quality is equal to the US shovel, basically the same thing. I'm thinking it was military contract for Taiwan or perhaps one of the other nations in Asia. I can't find anything on it however so it remains a bit of a mystery. I know there are cheap shovels out there made for the civilian market, this just doesn't seem like one. The two shovels are nearly identical. That one looks shorter than the other is just optics from the phone's camera.

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