WWII Early-war MATCHING M1910 Cup & Canteen ("T.A.C.U. 1941, 1942”) EXC!!

Description: This BEAD-BLASTED "Matching" CANTEEN and CUP from the same manufacturer, "The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company (T.A.C.U.)" stamped with a SCARCE pre-war and an early year of production, "1941" and "1942." The pair, (1) a vertical seam M1910 Canteen and (2) a M1910 Cup is from the earliest months of the WWII. They were made by one of the less frequently seen contractors: The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company, later known as Wear-Ever, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, founded in 1901. + Despite a Quartermaster directive issued as far back as 1918 during the WWI, mandating all contractors to 'bead blast' Canteens and Cups to produce a non-reflective finish, some of the Canteens and Cups from T.A.C.U. in 1942 were left BRIGHT and highly reflective and some such as this pair were BEAD-BLASTED for a NON-REFLECTIVE exterior. ***** M1910 CANTEEN: + The Body is free of corrosion and major scrapes, corrosion...and dents which often occurred under the Lift-the-Dot studs of the Canteen's cover there is a minor, shallow horizontal depression on the front of the Canteen at the line of the Cup's rim. It appear that at one time the Canteen was forced into a smaller Cup than it's mate with which it appears to have been issued. + The Canteen is crisply stamped on the reverse center toward the bottom:U.S. T.A.C.U.Co.1942+ The separately attached threaded Neck is of cast Aluminum.+ ZERO scrapes, cracks or corrosion to the Bakelite M910 Cap which appears original to the Canteen, judging from the unmolested pin holding the cap Chain to the cast aluminum Neck. + The chipped cork GASKET is in mint condition. + ZERO bent links in the steel Cap Chain. The Chain is made of rust-resistant 'German Silver' and is the shorter version that was introduced during the 1942 production year to save metal. Also, steel was substitute for 'German Silver' Chain. ***** M1910 CUP: + This is the WWI design M1910 with the first design "Rounded Lip" that was modified by the end of 1942 with a "sharp edge Lip," and then to a "flat, folded edge Lip." + The Cup is crisply stamped on the reverse center toward the bottom with a SCARCE pre-war date:U.S. T.A.C.U.Co.1941+ The Bead-blasted aluminum Body is non-reflective.+ ZERO corrosion and major scrapes, corrosion, and dents. The interior was left bright and is 'clean' and is free of major staining, corrosion, utensil "scrapes," and undue scouring. + The folding steel Handle retains most of its bright Zinc Plating. It opens and locks in place smoothly. Neatly stamped on the outside of the Handle is "2427", the last four digits of the soldier's A.S.N.. + The Zinc Plated Attachment Plate is secured by four round-head rivets that are nicely finished flush on the interior of the cup.+ Nelson contributed this production information about this Cup: The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co., New Kensington, Pennsylvania, delivered 700,000 cups marked as your example “TACU Co. \ 1941)” on Contract W431QM05669, the Quartermaster using a special allocation of aluminum made available by the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, precursor to the War Production Board. This contract goes unreported in War Supply Contracts, published post-War. ***** + This EARLY pair would have entered the supply systems of both the Army and the U.S. Marine Corps for all of the earliest campaigns of WWII in the Southern Solomon Islands and those subsequent and those of the Army in North Africa and the Mediterranean, e.g. Sicily, Italy. The only exceptions would have been the fighting on Bataan, Corregidor, and Wake Island...although the Cup might have made it out to the Pacific! *****WearEver Cookware can trace its origins back to 1888 when Charles Martin Hall, a young inventor from Oberlin, Ohio discovered an inexpensive way to smelt aluminum by perfecting the electrochemical reduction process that extracted aluminum from bauxite ore. Seeking to fund his continued exploration of this new process Hall eventually partnered with Alfred E. Hunt, a metallurgist in charge of the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, raising $20,000 with the help of investors and eventually forming the Pittsburgh Reduction Company which would later come to be known as the Alunminum Company of America (ALCOA). These new processes introduced two new challenges to ALCOA; they would need to generate a market and encourage manufacturers to use this new aluminum and they would need to increase production in order to cut costs through economies of scale. WearEver cookware was the method through which these challenges were met. WearEver Cookware helped aluminum consumption by introducing one of the first widely accepted and available aluminum based consumer products of their time. Initially this cookware was sold door-to-door by college students and would later be purchased in large quantities by organizations. In 1912, the United States Marine Corps would adopt WearEver aluminum utensils as their standard issue utensils.Groupe SEB acquired Mirro WearEver, a subsidiary of Global Home Products, for approximately $36.5 million in 2006. The acquisition included all inventories, trade receivables, factory and equipment in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and trademarks.*****The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company was founded on October 24, 1901 by Charles M. Hall and Alfred E. Hunt as a marketing subsidiary of the Pittsburgh Redcution Company in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Its industry is aluminum cooking utensils and its headquarters were in New Kensington, Pennsylvania (1901-1966), Chillicothe, Ohio (1966-1987), Richmond, Virginia (1987-1989).It was sold to the newly-formed Wesray Corporation in 1982. In 1983, Wesray acquired the Proctor-Silex division of SCM Corporation and merged it with Wear-Ever in 1985. The firm was sold to Nacco Industries, Inc. in 1988. A year later, the Newell Company acquired the Wear-Ever aluminum cookware and bakeware business of WearEver-ProctorSilex and consolidated it with its Mirro subsidiary. The brand became a part of Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. in 1999. In 2004 it was sold to Global Home Products LLC, and in 2006 to Groupe SEB.COMPANY NAMESAluminum Cooking Utensil Company (1901-1958)Wear-Ever Aluminum, Inc. (1958-1985)WearEver-ProctorSilex, Inc. (1985-1989)PRODUCTS"Wear-Ever" Aluminum Kitchen UtensilsBain-Marie PotsCoffee BoilersCruller PansDouble BoilersFrying PansGriddlesRectangular TraySauce PansSteam-Jacketed KettlesStock Pots

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