Wehrmacht Tent Pegs
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Through the years of metal detecting I have dug up a decent amount of german tent pegs, or Zeltpflöcke as they called them.
Each soldier were issued a Zeltbahn ( a quarter of a tent shelter), which could be buttoned together with two- or more pieces to form a tent. The soldiers were also issued three tent pegs.
The pegs came since before WW1 in several different variations, and materials, such as wood, pressed wood, iron and aluminum.
Often they were marked with a manufacturers code and year of production.
At some point I decided I wanted to build a collection of pegs, and today I have a bit more than thirty with different markings. Doublets I have traded, given away or sold.
Most of them were found by myself in Norway or Kurland, Latvia, while a couple were gifted to me by friends searching the old battlefields in Karelia, Russia.
There are still many manufacturer codes to collect, so I hope the next digging season will provide me with some, or if you reading this are also hoarding these and have doublets to trade, send me a mail.
AF38 S&C 36 S&C 37 S&C 38 S&C 39 NOWA 1938 NOWA 1939 SRM 38 S S 38 S 39 WJR 39 gyq 41 CGS 39 L&F 37 L&F 38 LGK&F 38 C&C.W 36 "Triangle" 38 "Triangle" 39 GA 37 GA 38 GA 39 P.u.C 38 Waffen SS 39/38 S C 40 iron peg W.A.L 39 GP 16 WW1 iron peg GS 40 and 41 wooden pegs DL 40 wooden peg Rope tensioners were also part of the zelthbahn kit
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