Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. During the Indian War Period, the United States Army sought to standardize how soldiers were not only with what they were clothed with, but also how they were equipped, armed, trained, fed, and so forth. The period of the 1870s-1890s was a time period of innovation, invention, and early mass production techniques. The stage was set for the Army’s Quartermaster Corps to experiment with, and adopt, new pieces of military equipage, ranging from Socks to Bunks to Saddles and Shovels.
This piece, a tin boiler measuring 8 5/8” x 6 3/8” x 5” Deep. Bearing the markings “Q/M” and patent date of May 4, 1886. Was one of those items tested during the period, denoted by the large embossed letters “QM” denoting the item is property of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. The boiler is indicative of mess pieces produced in the 1880s and 1890s, where pieces were stamped and rolled from clicker dies, drawn and formed to shape then tinned. A black painted cast iron handle was rivetted to the boiler, measuring 5”.
The “QM” marking is indicative of the markings customarily applied to field kitchen cookware used in the late 19th century, into the 20th century. “QM” stamps, of this same variety are found on experimemtal items as well, long before the more oft “EX” (Experimental) terminology was applied during the WWII era. Other civilian examples can be observed bearing only the Patent information, but devoid of the “QM” marking.
This piece is something one would see sitting atop a pot belly stove in a barracks at a fort somewhere along the American Frontier in the Old West! Ready for display!
This piece, a tin boiler measuring 8 5/8” x 6 3/8” x 5” Deep. Bearing the markings “Q/M” and patent date of May 4, 1886. Was one of those items tested during the period, denoted by the large embossed letters “QM” denoting the item is property of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. The boiler is indicative of mess pieces produced in the 1880s and 1890s, where pieces were stamped and rolled from clicker dies, drawn and formed to shape then tinned. A black painted cast iron handle was rivetted to the boiler, measuring 5”.
The “QM” marking is indicative of the markings customarily applied to field kitchen cookware used in the late 19th century, into the 20th century. “QM” stamps, of this same variety are found on experimemtal items as well, long before the more oft “EX” (Experimental) terminology was applied during the WWII era. Other civilian examples can be observed bearing only the Patent information, but devoid of the “QM” marking.
This piece is something one would see sitting atop a pot belly stove in a barracks at a fort somewhere along the American Frontier in the Old West! Ready for display!
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