OT: what kind of canteen is this?

[ilyaz]

I guess this is off-topic since I am not planning to scrap this. But it is metal...

Does anyone know what type of canteen this is?



It's about 12" tall. Do you think it's copper? I think it dates to between 1930 and 1960 maybe 1970, but can't pinpoint its age more accurately, at least not yet... This was found together with a bunch of old bottles during a creek clean-up, probably from an old dump . The canteen is till intact -- I poured water into it and it did not leak. So far did not find anything written or stamped on it. Considering cleaning the rust off but it might damage more than "beautify" so I might end up simply cleaning the iron/steel rust off and leaving the rest alone...

Thanks

[kenley]

Boy Scout??

[ilyaz]

UPDATE: looks like the copper (brass, actually) canteen shown above is similar to one of these: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...-hot-104016000

I was able to partially clean and read the logo ("CELLO"). Not sure I can ever clean this up to make it shiny but it' still pretty cool!