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Ferdinand	Posted: October 15, 2011 10:30 am
Maior Group: Members Posts: 721 Member No.: 1486 Joined: June 28, 2007	I just bought this messkit, aluminium, factory marked 1943. Written on it in hungarian(maybe some will translate) Any info? Thanks.

mihnea	Posted: October 15, 2011 10:40 am
Capitan Group: Members Posts: 682 Member No.: 679 Joined: September 26, 2005	It's a nice hungarian messkit with trench art, what more info do you want? Unfortunately I don't speak hungarian so I can't help you with a translation.

Ferdinand	Posted: October 15, 2011 02:05 pm
Maior Group: Members Posts: 721 Member No.: 1486 Joined: June 28, 2007	Thanks Mihnea. I wonder what was it's road? The trench art is dated 45, it is hungarian but it was found in Brasov. Was this type in ro army use? Or could some romanian soldier bring it from Hungary...

Ertogrul	Posted: October 15, 2011 06:18 pm
Soldat Group: Members Posts: 23 Member No.: 2022 Joined: April 27, 2008	emlekul - a haborubol = in remembrance (in memory of) - from the war Alsopaty, Vas megye = Aslopaty (a village in) Vas county (in Hungary) Eljen a haza! = Long live mother country (or Fatherland...how you wish) + coat of arms of Hungary+ tulips (I couldn't identify the other thing that looks like a coat of arms). The hammer and sickle makes me think that at least some part of the inscriptions were made in a soviet POW camp. (I certanly don't think that the owner had communist sympathies.) 27 ZA T.J. orv could be 27 zaszloalj T.J. orvezeto = 27th batallion T.J. lance-corporal

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