CSA wood canteens - authentication

[stri volunteer]

Re: CSA wood canteens - authentication

The earlier canteen book is still the one to get, if you can find a copy.

[Bluehawk]

Re: CSA wood canteens - authentication

The earlier canteen book is still the one to get, if you can find a copy.

Thank you...

When I saw a couple of Gardners in one reference text, my heart sang because of how closely they resemble the Canadian replica I have... with certain very obvious differences such as: mine being thicker in dimension and (I perceive) probably smaller in diameter, and especially in the type of wood(s) apparently used for a Gardner.

With this discussion in place, I find myself wishing I'd begun it years ago when it would have been possible to ask the maker where or from what he based his pattern on.

[Bill]

Re: CSA wood canteens - authentication

Mike,

If you can get your hands on the second edition of Sylvia and O'Donnell's canteen book, published in 1990; there are two views of a British Canteen on page seven. On page nine there is another canteen, that I believe is also a Brit canteen, which was labeled as going back to the Revolutionary War. The Brits made this sort of canteen for a long while!

[Bluehawk]

Re: CSA wood canteens - authentication

Thanks... I'm going to be looking for these suggested books.