German Imperial Militaria

Hi Andy, sorry I didn't see this before now. Glad you asked because--just yesterday as a matter of fact-I did see an Imperial WOund Badge with a makres mark on it. This one was for sale at I think near $300.00 and is a four-piece screwback. This one if I remember correctly? was made by C.E. Junker. I;ll try to find the site I saw it listed on and give you it's link to it. I THINK it was on Der Rittmeister? If not? then I only have to look throuh three other sites that I visited yesterday.

 

A beaut Skipper. This is the first one I have seen in at least 1o years.

 

Cheers Carl, it's the first one I see too, I immediately realized it was german made, thanks to the typical lock and the same shape as the iron WWII ones, but I wouldn't not have dreamt to own one in such great condtion for such a small price.

 

wow skipper cool MG ammo crate - almost looks brand new! ....must have been well looked after by the last owner

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hey Carl, - thanks

ya i know Der Rittmeister, he's got some very nice stuff (i bought from him before)

it seems that in general (well from what i've seen) the black wound badges don't usually have maker's marks - but i have seen them on the "cut-out" versions, but these are typically more expensive/sought after anyway.



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Cheers Skipper, and if you ever decide to sell or trade for it-please let me have first dibs on it :-D One copuld always use another ammo can ;-))

 

What kind are you looking for? I know a seller who had two iron Mg ones from WWII for sale the other day. They were quite cheap and he might still have them , next Saturday.

 

Hi Andy, same here. He is one dealer one can go to who will take the time necessary for his customers and who actually knows his stuff and that you don't have to worry about buying an item as being a fake. In the many years I have dealt with him, not once have I ever had a slight problem buying and recieveing from him. The last item I bought was a mint unused postcard-colorized-that was a great portrait of a man whom I own one of his ribbonbars-Franz-Friedrich von Grossherzog IVth (aka) the Grand Duke of Mecklinburg-Schwerin.

 

Hi Skipper, any will do but the two I am most interested in would be painted in the Continental colors of either: Grey-Green-or the more bluish one. However, I wouldn't mind a "DAK" "tropical-painted can"-or even a white one. I saw some of these not long ago on a dealers site-who operates out of Michegan-who had a few. These had apparently been used either in Russia or during the Battle of the Bulge. One of them even had an Edelweiss painted on it and i guess symbolizing that a Gebirgsjager unit had used this ammo can ;-))

Take care Skipper, and if possible? let me know how much? and ill see about doing a deal with you on it or them ;-)) Oh and, when I again get running transportation-plus all of my ppics in from the guy you see me buying them from-ill be able to get that 3rd cd made and can then ship a copy of all three out to you. Right now im still awaiting all my newly purchased GJ 79th A.R pics-the Regimentstagesbefehl, My von Rundstedt and several other pics-including RKTs Hemmann and Glatzner-and a few other Generals and RKTs and such.

Did you get the chance to se my latest purchases yet? You might like these ;-)) I missed out just barely--a good pic showing a German SHip in the action of laying a mine-field.

 

ya Carl, same here - no problems what so ever and very friendly/helpful too.....wish i could afford to buy more of his stuff ! ah student life ! ...... i'll eat my beans on toast while i look at militaria

 

The WWII ones you will find will either be Felgrau , black or ...rusted. I'm afraid there aren't too many DAK relics here and even less Edeweiss markings, those would have been picked up by collectors long ago. The Luftwaffe blue ones will pop up from time to time, but they are gettign really rare too. I will keep my eyes open though. Wooden crates from WWI will also be sold at flea markets from time to time.

 

Ahh, the memories of the lean, mean college starvation days. I guess I was lucky in that Harlingen not only had Checkers-but Ci-Cis Pizza. We could go to Ci-Cis and stuff our faces with unlimited sodapop-for $2.50! Nowdays I guess it would be about $6.50??

We could go to Checkers 2-3 times a week and stuff ourselves for about $3.00.

The food at the school cafeteria was good most of the time-but so unaffordable-on a daily basis. One benefit I had when going to the cafeteria-is that before closing time-we could take all of their left-over french fries-eat what we wanted and chuck the rest to the Seagulls and Grackles. I befriended several Gulls and Grackles-one Grackle in particular used to actually come into my car-and sit on the dashboard-on it's one good foot-the other was deformed badly. Anyway, this bird knew which dorm I lived at-and at night on nights I could afford to buy and make soup-it would actually come sit on the rail outsire my dorms door-waiting for bread-potatos and such.

Anyway, have you evern heard of eating Suger Sandwiches? We ate those quite often when we first got to that College. All one did was to simply take 2 slices of bread, scoop suger out of the bag and spread it on one slice-slapping the other on it thus making a suger sandwich. We couldn't afford Peanut butter in those days ;-(

Minute Rice was also another "staple" to our diet. We could mix anything and everything with it-and sometimes a box of it would last us a week-that is-until two more students were moved into our dorm-and began swiping our food. They never not once-replaced anything they ate from out pantry-not that we were not willing to share but???? if you know what I mean?

A real treat for us was when we would take a can of Wolf-Brand Chili (no beans) a sack of Fritos, 4 slices of American Cheese (when we could afford to buy it?) and mix it all together-making the best damned Frito-Pie you could eat.

PS, MILITARIA, MILITARIA, MILITARIA-there-now im not totally off-topic ;-))

PSS, a side note on militaria-in those days-the full time I was in school-I only managed to buy one badge-which was the 2nd Destroyer War Badge I ever owner-for $40 bucks. I also managed to buy two single collartabs-and two single shoulderboards-for a total of $20.00.

The Collartabs were sold as: Gebirgsjager Officers collartabs-Cavalry NCOs collartab, Gebirgsjager Oberst Shoulderboard, Allgemeinen SS NCOs shoulderboard. I later learned that these were not what they were being sold as. The Gebirgsjager offz tab WAS indeed a Gebirgsjager officers tab-just not WWII German but modern EAST GERMAN-the Cav NCOs tab was indeed WWII German Cav NCO tab-the Gebirgs Oberst board was actually an Oberst Board for Rural Polizei, and the ""SS NCOs board was actually a Railroad Polizei NCOs board ;-(

 

Ill definately be waiting for what you find ;-))

I have seen some LW and Army-and some DAK painted ones as well-but these were priced far much more than im willing to pay-for an item I really don't need-at least until I can do a display I want to do--which is an East Front Communications Center inside a bunker. I am a long way from that happening though :-(

 

sounds like good times carl! ...... im well used of it myself!!!

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i was a "happy camper" this morning, as i was clearing out an old box full of junk at home, dating back to when we moved from New York to Ireland about 15 years ago.....well anyway the box was indeed full of rubish and junk, but i found two small bags at the bottom, so i opened them up and the first thing i saw was a WW1 German Imperial match box holder - i could'nt believe it!

the bag was also full of many old coins, (mostly french but i did'nt have time to properly look at them there and then) old watches and bits and bobs

later i'll post a pic of the match box holder and any other stuff of militaria interest!


oh ya almost forgot - the matchbox holder is made of brass but there is a bit of corrosion (sort of blue/green - not much though) ......would you guys think it would be a good idea to clean that off, and if so how/ with what?

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Hi Andy-those were good times-and also militaria price wise too ;-)) I wish that I had bought more of that dealers wares because he had flags, other awards and medals, and some rank insignia. This guy was a WWII vet who had a stall at a Fleamarket. I remember he had most every WWII German badge available-centering his wares on KM badges. I didn't get anything else from him because poverty and college got in my way and I forgot about the stuff he had for sale. I remember he had aminty High Seas Fleet Badge, and some Uboat badges for sale-all at $45.00 or lower. At that time-being illetirate on militaria prices-I thought those prices were rather steep. Had I only known???

 

i know carl ya that sounds great, but missed opportunities!........if only we had a time machine.........or a lot of beer

 

here are the pics:


see what i mean about the corrosion on the brass



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also there were many coins, french german,canadian,irish and british coins - all from about 1850's up to 1960's ......such a random find!

one coin i found to be interesting was a 1853 Napoleon III Empereur coin, it had a mint stamp "A'" on it......and I was able to find out that it was minted in Paris......so my militaria collection is expanding !

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just realised how blurred the photo's are - sorry bout that!


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Andy, that will look great when all polished up

My method for cleaning brass, is to soak it in warm water for a while and then wipe off what you can - maybe get an old toothbrush to it.

Then pull out the brasso - probably the best brass cleaner to use if you want to polish it up. I don't think it will cause any unwanted damage... but I can't say for sure.

You might find some of it won't budge, in which case you'll have to leave it I'm afraid.

Hope this helps

 

cheers will.........thanks for the tip too!

 

Exactly. I would go to one of those Depots where they stored captured German equipment and snag as many helmets and such that I could get my hands on-as well as their weapons ;-)) In this-yup-I would be as greedy as I could get :-D

 

Forgot to mention-nice matchbox. I have seen them from time to time and almost bought them at times.