Original U.S. Indian Wars Model 1872 Meat Can - First Ever Issued U.S. Military Mess Kit Receivers The fourteen strips and rays

The fourteen strips and rays on the star represent the various areas of the country

Madras and Bombay

This cap is also very flexible

we formed up

and the correct 44 WCF marking over the chamber

Original U.S. Indian Wars Model 1872 Meat Can - First Ever Issued U.S. Military Mess Kit Receivers The fourteen strips and raysOriginal Items: Only One Available. Incredibly rare Model 1872 Tin Meat Can. These were originally manufactured for a little less than two years, before being replaced by the much more improved Model 1874 Meat Can (Which was the predecessor to the famous Model 1910 Mess Kit, which a derivative thereof is still issued and used to this day!). In 1872 a board of officers recommended the adoption of a container to hold the issue meat ration for the