That's a nice hypothesis but I doubt that the added weight incurred by using pressed steel pegs would have brought the company to a halt :-)

( didn't use sheet aluminum in my copies, I actually cut some 6061 "angle iron" at a diagonal to form)

Alistair 

> On Jun 21, 2017, at 7:09 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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=
>