Insect repellent, straight from the box. Full 2 fluid ounce bottle, SKAT insect repellent from the June 1943 dated box. The bottom of the bottle is marked Des Pat 85925 (the design pantent number) and the diamond-oval-I logo of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. The 3 to the right side of the...
Allen's Aspirin. Six tablets in typical wartime cardboard box straight from the counter display carton. On the back of each package is explained 'this new victory package is adopted to help conserve metals needed for the war effort'. The tablets are still present. Nice wartime display item...
Full box of Caramels. Made by the Borden Co. Ration items have become exceedingly difficult to find. Very good condition.
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Small bottle containing 100 Halazone tablets. For purifying water in canteens. Produced by Abbott Labatories. The bottom of the bottle is marked with Abbott Lab. and the diamond-oval-I logo of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. The 4 to the right of the makers logo dates the bottle to 1944....
Dentyne chewing gum. Tablet of chewing gum straight from the box. With mid war paper inner wrapper. Produced in 1943 (the year Dextrose as ingredient was introduced). Also see photo of 1940 advertisement (when the inner wrapper was still aluminum foil). Last one available. Very good...
Army issue pocket comb. 7.5 inch and made of black plastic. Marked Made in USA. Excellent condition.
Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum. Single stick of gum with mid war red paper inner wrapper. The red inner wrapper sticks of gum are hard to find because Wrigley's discontinued the production in favor of the lesser quality Orbit brand due to limited supplies of ingredients. Very good...
Orbit chewing gum. Full package with five sticks of peppermint flavored gum. Orbit was introduced by Wrigley's when the company could no longer produce their own types of gum due to limited supplies of ingredients (see additional photos). Orbit produced only two flavors of gum: fruit and...
Chiclets chewing gum. Unopened package which contains twelve Peppermint flavour candy coated pieces of gum. Typical wartime production with the window printed on and not see-though as all cellophane was reserved for the war effort. Very good condition.
One fruit candy Charms in its original cellophane. GI's favorite! Very good condition.
Malted Milk tablets. Small roll that was part of various rations. Produced by the Beech-Nut Packaging Co. Version with paper inner wrapper. Very good condition.
Washburn P-38 can opener in its original unopened paper wrapper with variation print. As found in 10-in-1 rations. Many GI's kept these on the chain of their dogtags. The opener is marked US ANDROCK. Note, the P-38 can opener on the opened wrapper is for display only. You receive a closed...