THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
Kit, Mess
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| Description |
Meat Can or mess kit; tinned iron oval shaped frying pan with collapsable iron handle; tinned iron oval shaped bread plate with circular ring soldered to one end, which nestles into the frying pan; painted with
gold colored paint at a later date. Scratched into inside of plate, and painted in black on outside of plate: "EM".
Used by Private Ernst Mueller, Company F, 2nd Wisconsin National Guard in Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War. |
| Dimensions |
H-2 W-6.5 L-8.75 inches |
| Year Range from |
1880 |
| Event |
Spanish-American War |
| Year range to |
1898 |
| Material |
Iron/Tin/Paint |
| Object ID |
2194-27 |
| Object Name |
Kit, Mess |
| People |
Mullen, Ernst |
| Used |
Mullen, Ernst |
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Last modified on: December 12, 2009
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