Description
Camouflage Pattern: Carbon Overprint Splittertarnmuster
Markings: 1945 and 0-0150-0058
Maker: 0-0150-0058 refers to a certain producer in Cottbus, Brandenburg.
Year: 1945
Number of grommets: 6
Button/grommet material: steel
Notes: After the capitulation of the Italian army in 1943 their camouflage printing rollers and uniform/equipment stocks where captured and brought back to Germany. It was then that the first Zeltbahnen of captured Italian camouflage material (Telo Mimetico) where produced. Also some experiments where done combining Telo Mimetico with Splittertarnmuster. This is known to collectors as carbon overprint and consists of a base of the brown base colour Telo Mimetico printed in carbon ink overprinted with Splittertarnmuster. This is a extremely rare variation intended to camouflage against infrared light.