Found this in a junk shop the other day. Too old to be WWII. Any idea if these are military issued or not. No maker name or markings other than the US.
I had found a set of those too! Check out this link for here at Papaws wrench:
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=1956.msg11543#msg11543
Hope this helps!, Bill D.
Thanks Bill.
Yep, thanks for the link!
I had always thought that style was WWII era barbed wire pliers, but I guess that link shows I was wrong. Several Ebay listings show them as WWI or WWII. Does anyone know if they were still using them in WWII?
In the UK and other European countries the same item had a long life in the military - a sealed pattern tool or piece of kit may have been issued through most of the 20th century, made by a number of different maufacturers - in my own area, billhooks, the same model is often found with date stamps 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1945, plus occasionally earlier or later - it was only discontinued in the 1960's, when it was replaced by a machete/jungle knife. The same pattern barbed wire cutters are found in the UK stamped for both world wars. so I guess in the USA they would well have been found in both...
In my shop i have a pair of pliers marked MADE IN GERMANY-U.S.ZONE.
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