WW2 German Gas Mask With Original Wartime Straps , Gas Training Manual & Spare Lenses
A good original WW2 German gas mask set coming complete with long & short original wartime issue carrying straps , spare lenses & Gas training manual.
Gas mask is of the M38 green rubber facepiece model with 'bmw42' markings to date indicating maker & 1942 date. Canister has a good proportion of its original green factory paint remaining with markings to lid 'ets1943' so a midwar manufacture. Filter is of the FE41 model . Set comes with a 1940 dated German gas training manual that has various photographs of the German soldier demonstrating use of the gas mask , its cleaning etc. On the front page of the booklet is a collector applied red ink stamped spurious Waffen SS marking which has been later added & is not original to the manual. Spare lense packet dated 1944.
Code: 13450