I suspect those periscopes were heavy steel and glass affairs and were carried by one soldier in the field, so weight was a factor. Probably had several of these stakes, hence the aluminum. Those are cast (probably from scrap aluminum), so they are brittle, but yours are fabricated from sheet aluminum, much stronger!

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Alistair Bell
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 6:37 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Opinions requested, van related, German tent pegs

That's interesting, certainly puts a different light on the eBay listings.

I made my own version, actually two versions , and added a pic at the end of the original post 

https://shufti.blog/2017/06/20/tent-pegs-german-wwii-era-really/

Alistair 

> On Jun 21, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>  eBay.de has them as DDR pieces. This would explain lack of quality. 
> 
> Chris
> 
> Dnia 21.06.2017 o godz. 15:57 Chris S <szpejankowski@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> 
>> Search "apag zeltpflog" to get better search results. 
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> Dnia 20.06.2017 o godz. 21:37 Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> napisał(a):
>> 
>>> Check this out:
>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-ORIGINAL-GERMAN-BUNKER-PERISCOPE-POLES-
>>> APAG-/29
>>> 0966794725
>>> 
>>> Stuart
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On 
>>> Behalf Of Alistair Bell
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 6:09 PM
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Opinions requested, van related, German tent pegs
>>> 
>>> Cleaning out the stuff sack that contains these kind of things in 
>>> the van, brought out the German tent pegs. The easily broken German 
>>> tent pegs that is. Did a google search and found hits saying WWII 
>>> era pegs. I find that hard to believe but I'm asking the hive to 
>>> give opinion based on a couple of pics here:
>>> 
>>> https://shufti.blog/2017/06/20/tent-pegs-german-wwii-era-really/
>>> 
>>> Alistair=