DWM tin

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We know that DWM had a hard time surviving after WW1 and the Versailles Treaty. It meant they had to abandon the production of arms and ammunition, at least to the public eye (and more importantly, that of the Interallied Control Commission). They never gave up the production of small arms and ammunition completely and found ways to preserve expensive production machines by using them for the production of cutlery, push buttons, pots and pans and all sorts of consumer items.

I recently received this beat up little tin. It once held a DWM made bicycle chain, another product that helped DWM through the tough years. The company name is BKIW, with quite a bit of reference to the DWM name in both the product and the company name (vormals Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken). The box was made somewhere between 1933 and 1936.