Show us your militaria...

When i was in my early teens we moved house, during transit a number of items from my militaria collection mysteriously disappeared.

I often wonder where my British civilian gas masks, pith helmet and badges ended up ???

 

My M35 that I have already posted a pic of with my Soviet SSh and Red Army 80's issue ushanka. Guess I need to get that dust off my shelf!




I cant help but laugh, thats quite a clever name for your cat Za.

 

Just bought two autographs from heroautographs.com

Günter Rall´s wartime signature ( the same kind of pic as featured )

Rall, Günther

Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer´s selfmade autograph card

Schnaufer, Heinz-Wolfgang

 

Kai I am quite familiar with this chap, my you spent some good sized change to secure the wartime photos mit signatures

good for you

E ♫

 

Indeed - I am very about the Schnaufer one......

 

I thought I deserved some kinda birthday present so why not....

I guess there´s still the Marseille autograph available...now that´s the one that´s wortha fortune...

Marseille, Hans-Joachim

 

The cannister is wartime but has had a repaint and post war straps added.

The gas mask is untouched, it has a name tag sewn on to one of the straps which names it to an officer.

 

Out of interest-What is the name on the name tag?

 

Hi Joe

Here is a photograph of the tag. As you can see,there are actually two tags, one on top of the other.

The person i bought the gasmask from told me it was named to an officer, to be honest, i can't make head nor tail of the tag....

Maybe you or another member of the forum can enlighten me ?

 

Uffz. Grieger (Grieser?) would be an Unteroffizier wouldn't he?
NCO rank roughly equivalent to corporal.

Cheers,
Adam.

 

corporal or base sergeant as I was told by a Heer Infantrie vet friend several times

 

Thanks for the info Adam, Erich.

It would be intresting to know what is on the tag underneath, but i'm not prepared to undo the top one to find out.

Oh for X-ray eyes....

 

Another one from the collection, this time a Sten Mk.3

 

If it's old spec I'm quite jealous of that one John. By the time I got around to looking for a Sten a few years ago the new spec deac had fully kicked in, the old spec ones doubled in price over the course of a year to silly levels (£475 for one nice one I saw!) and the prospect of paying £200+ for a new spec welded solid 'metal tube and a spring' didn't appeal.

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Adam, sadly it is new spec deact. I bought it a few years back for £135 at the Stoneleigh militaria show. I would love an old spec deact, but as you mention, the prices are now ridiculous.

Looks like i'll just have to make do with my metal tube that is chopped and welded....

 

Hi Jhon, I beleive you have got a new addition to your tat collection

 

For a ton 35 I'd probably have cracked at Beltring over the last couple of years, but they've been more like £250.

 

Hi Neil, I sure have and here it is...

Adam, have you had a look on Ryton Arms website? They are still selling Mk.3s for £135.

http://www.rytonarms.co.uk/site/home.php

 

I definitely wanted a mark II (or V if I was really lucky) at the time, check out this price for an old spec II:
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These were no more than a couple of hundred only 4 or 5 years ago...
It's like Lanchesters and MG34's, by the time I'd built up the urge to buy one the price had doubled .

Just for a laugh, a V blank firer:

 

I think i'd rather have an MP40 blank firer....

SMG's