Original U.S. WWI Corrected English Type Box Respirator Gas Mask in Original Carrying Bag with Anti-Dimming Stick Availability_International and a 25 marking

and a 25 marking

with a great brown oxidized patina on most of the metalwork

Year of Manufacture: circa 1780-1815

It measures 19" long with a hook diameter of 10" and has rings on both ends

again one of the most beautiful we have seen

Original U.S. WWI Corrected English Type Box Respirator Gas Mask in Original Carrying Bag with Anti-Dimming Stick Availability_International and a 25 markingOriginal Item: Only One Available. Of the 5,250,000 gas masks of all types produced by the U. S. during the war, 1. 6 million of them were the improved version of the British SBR. This mask was officially known as the U. S. Corrected English Small Box Respirator or the U. S. Corrected English Model (CEM). Produced in six sizes (1 through 6) from January to March 1918, the CEM was one of the two most commonly worn American made gas masks used by the