What's your newest militaria III

Just arrived from Deutschland: three M-1925 Reichswehr buckles, hard to find, quite rusted but still with some original Felgrau visble and should come out great after a nice cleaning. One is in perfect condition, one has in bent in the eagle (should be easy to fix) and one is damaged.

 

hi skipper, nice buckle ;-))

I just got a nice EastFont photo that you guys would love having. I knbow it aint much being only one photo but, it has all the elements i like in a ww2GERMAN PHOTO. a wINTER SHOT SOMEWHERE ON THE EASTERN FRONT AND GREAT VIEW-ONE I HAVe been wanting for ages now--which shows a mg nest and frontal view-from behind the mg, and i think you can actually see through the gunners site--and also shows the mg crew on watch-weaing sheepskin coats and m-43 hats.

 

Just bought the whole set of different Winter War medals. These have different clasps for battle places, plus one bigger Winter War medal for foreign volunteer.

Sorry about the quality of pics, these are the pics I received from the seller.

 

You lucky man! If you have time I'd love to see details of those especially legends.

Here is my latest : A German Pertrix FeldGendarme lamp with red , white and green colour light disks. And it works. he daylight is good enough, but I tried it at night and the results are really stunning. There is no way someone could miss that flashlight signal.

 

That's a nice one, and certainly looks 'WWII'. There are many, many post-war German flashlamps around, all masquerading as WWII kit.....

 

The post WWII have huge glasses and are easy to recognize. I'm pretty sure this is a good one . The Pertix 678 model was used by the Wehrmacht but also by the Dutch. As a matter of fact this one comes from Holland, by googling this very model, I find many WWII sites that mention the same reference. It will look nice on my Mannequin

here is a pic of a Heer soldier wearing one

http://img15.imageshack.us/i/pertrix1x.jpg/

 

Great stuff guys!

 

remember my Reichswehr buckles? Well here are the same ones after restoration

 

no pictures, but i picked it up at a garage sale a month ago or so. a 1944 American mess kit in superb condition. I also found one at my grandma and grandpa's cabin a while longer ago, which was a 1942 American mess kit, in rather poor condition. rust all over, and could barely make out the year it was made in.

 

Some autographs...

Aces of the Luftwaffe - Heinrich Ehrler

Aces of the Luftwaffe - Joachim Müncheberg

Fritz Bayerlein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kurt Freiherr von Liebenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Nice items Kai. Going through what i've missed lot's of nice items added to everyone's collection. This is my latest items and I will have more photo's to come. This item of Rommel was sent out from what I have been told to answer replies for a photo and autograph. The other item is a ww1 welcome and thanks from King George this is the first time I have everseen anything like this. Complete with envelope.

 

Hi Kai, that is one fantastic find. I could only dream of such. Congrats my friend and as my eyes aremnt that good, can you please list a list of the battles these were awarded for.

 

ditto, I'd love to get that list too

 

Those Battles would all be great to start researching since I don't know more than a handfull of info on the Winter War.

 

That's because you never played Panzer General when you werea kid Carl .

I will have much more to post in the future, including a German amno crate, Carl Zeiss binos and possibly a German M-1916 helmet (I'm currently negociating it with a dealer who wants to trade some of my militaria + money for it, so I will see if we can make a deal or not tomorrow

 

just got this in,a Bulgarian sniper positioned on the Mur river watches German positions 1945,You guys know how he got a Soviet m91/30 sniper rifle? Did the Soviets supply Bulgaria with weapons?

 

They did in late 44 and 45

 

Ernst Simon

note the red edged piping on his collar tabs..........

He was in the Brigade 243 & 301. Was Hauptman & Batterie-Chef at the End of the war.

Earned the Ost Medal, EKII, EKI, CCC, Wound Badge Silver, GAB most probably for at least 50 engagements, the man was acting CO of 301 for a very short time after the CO of the Brigade was KIA.

Attached on two different time frames with the 101Jäger Division. the 301st was noted for Wachmeister Fiebig who already had 50 Soviet Tank kills to his credit by April of 44.

 

Heh heh, I spent my time playing; Squad Leader, and I was always the Germans. Not bragging but, everytime i played it, i won, and i had almost no clue of how i did it? ;-0)

Looking forward to seeing your newest-specially the specs.

 

Whether you like it or not? I gave you 38 reps for this pic. This is a great and VERY rare type photo. As for your question, Im thinking the Russians did the same thing like the germans and our guys-mainly getting rid of older stuff whaich was already replaced with newer weapons.