Vehicle Shovel

**Flying10uk** · Yesterday 08:08 AM

I have this vehicle or pioneer shovel that I purchased some years ago for a very good price but without knowing from which country it is from. The vendor thought that it may possibly be post war East German or Yugoslavian but wasn't too sure. I have seen similar shovels advertised as WW2 German but I have also seen others say that WW2 German shovels were different to that. The finish appears to be possibly a blackened steel finish, painted black, repainted green and then black again. The overall length is about 43 3/4" long. I'm aware that East Germany icon

used a lot of light green painted kit but most of their long shovels were welded, not riveted. Yugoslavia icon

used light/apple green on their kit but also on re-used WW2 German kit that they used post WW2.

Any clirification on age and origin would be appreciated, please, thanks.

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**Aragorn243** · Yesterday 11:08 PM

No markings? Most shovels have markings somewhere although they are sometimes under thick layers of paint. That would help some if you could find some markings.

I have an extensive collection of normal entrenching tools but haven't gotten into the longer ones except the US Jeep shovels.

It looks exactly like a Finnish icon

entrenching shovel I have only with a longer handle and missing the hole for the tie down. That would seem to indicate it's Russian icon

/Soviet or possibly Finn production.