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Combat Field C Rations 1968 Can, Complete, Matched Co
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This item up for bids is a very respectable vintage collectable. This C Ration Combat Meal ( Ham Sliced CookedWith Juices is a really unique item. Every once in a while when restoring these old collectables you come across a meal that is very nicely colored and almost a rare sight. This set is one of those sets. All the cans are very close in color and these make the very best display sets. This one is very clean, nice condition and is a complete meal with all the items. Some of the items are getting harder to find and when you do find them the price has gone up in them. I have to search for items to put these meals back together again. The accessory packet is one of the very earliest types in almost a pink colored wrapper. Unlike its predissessor which were more brown this one is very unique. Has the early sample packs of cigarettes t for you must be at leat 18 years old to purchase this item. Nothing in this meal is consumable. DISPLAY ONLY! The value in the cigarettes is its early 1960s packaging. Its a very unique and scarce collectable. The type included in this set is even more rare. I have opened the kit to display the items in it for the benifit of the buyer. If you want a kit that is not opened I can put a different one in the set but it will not be as old as this one. The P-38s alone cost 5 bucks each now days. The accessory packets can cost up to 25 bucks. You see the value in these old collectables has risen as they become more scarce. You can get these meals in their baisc form fairly cheap. Getting them in a display condition with all the parts is another. We try to put them out the way they were packaged. Now were working on putting them out politically correct. Meaning the accociated cans that were packaged with specific other items during that period. We restore these meals and try to put them back in as close to issue date as possible. For being over 40 years old our meals are very impressive for any collection or display. If the cans are leaking we remove the contents, steam the cans, fill them with a very high grade wax, oil the cans with a food grade oil to prevent staining, and buff them out. This meal only has one restored item in it. The Peaches. That can is an early 1960s vintage which was leaking but was still a very nice looking piece for its age. Well worth saving. We have even had to reshaped some cans, and completly clean and recolor the boxes which had been leaked in. That is a process but when its done the box is ironed back to a very straight and crisp position. At least as close as we can get it. These meals range from the 1960s through the 1970s.When we are done with one of these meals they are very clean and ready to show in any regard. The meals are all original and authentic Pieces . Its very important to preserve our Military History and these meals are a huge part of that history. When these type items are all gone t are no more to be had. They will never be made again and to get one that is in very nice condition is a special listing. I will try to explain each item as best I can and provide as much information on its history as possible. Ham Sliced Cooked With Juices - Original, Full, 1960s, 5 1/4 oz Can. This can is full and non damaged or leaking. Its a Side seam made can with the early Tin Seal, and has 99 percent of its original OD Green Paint. This can was packaged early on by a company we all are famuliar with called the " Libby McNeill " which was located in Chicago Illinois. Libby, McNeill, & LibbyOne of the world's leading producers of canned foods, this company was created in 1868 by Archibald McNeill and the brothers Arthur and Charles Libby, who sold beef packed in brine. In 1875, the company began to can its meat in pyramid-shaped metal containers. This product proved popular, and by the 1880s, when it employed 1,500 people, the company was slaughtering as many as 200,000 cattle and selling several millions of dollars' worth of canned meat each year. Like other large Chicago meat companies, L...
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