What's your newest militaria III

Yesterday was a good day. At first sight there wasn't much to go to in our aera, so Mrs Skipper and I decided to go on a day trip to the Parisian southern counties where we had spotted three flea markets. After a long drive we got to first one which appeared to be some kind of market for "Rockfeller only" as anything seemed to be gold and cost a fortune. It was a shame because there were quite few things including drawings from Buchenwald and some medal sets, but we decided to move to elsewhere. At the second place it was the exact opposite and it was in the middle of an immigrant neigbourhood with about ten sellers selling old junk.
The third one was promissing , the sellers had beautiful objects including cased French artillery 1938 dated SRPI "y" shaped binoculars for 150 €. There were also some WWI Huet Binos with plates still on them for 120€ , but they being militaria fair prices I moved on. Then I saw an old man who could hardly stand and asked me to hand him his cane as he was about to fall. He first said he had no militaria to sell, but after a small conversation he showed me an original D.P. (Homefront) armband with great stamps form a Parasian suburb town. He also had some nice WWI tinnies and it appears he a collection of "flyers that were dropped from aircrafts during the war at home but he didn't bring them with him this time". I have his coordonnates and will meet him next week. In the meantime this is a sample of what he has (it's the dp armband) .

 

Wow! Skipper. Who knows you might have a great addition of flyers to your collection soon...

 

The "brassard" is really in mint condition! Good find!

 

Thanks guys, I also bought a French log book from a career Adjudent who joined the army in 1926 and has logs until April 1940. I wondered what happened to him. Apparently he survived because his diescharge papers are from 1954. What is great is the fact that he was a sniper and also foolowed tuiton for contre espionnage , so the book is quite interesting.

Regarding the flyers they are apparently 1944 ones dropped by the allies behind the German lines (written in German and ask them to surrender) .

What I also need to scan for you is a few pages of a 1945 caricature book of the Vichy Regime. It was quite dary those days to make humor and an autocriticism of such matters and the book is a rarity.

 

That sounds enormously interesting Skipper! Specially so the diary!

 

What makes it more interesting is that the old man lives near Etampes Montdésir area. The name should ring a bell to most aviation fans, it doesn't mean anything , but if there could be anything related to the LW it would be even better.

 

An US Army High Neck Sweater, dated March 16th 1944 and M1943 gloves.





An M84 scope for the Garand.




Two second type Oilers for the Thompson, for the M1 and the M1A1 that will be here soon!




A plethora of first type M1 carbine pouches, one is really mint condition!

 

SKYLINEDRIVE,Nice sweater in a good size. The gloves are nice.Are the gloves a good size? Over here they are hard to find. I only have 2 pair of gloves. Rich A. in Pa.

 

I will have to check the size of the gloves! I know that they are too small for me but I have very large hands, anyhow I was not counting on wearing the stuff!

 

Some WWI vintage stuff.

Five pouches for 1911A magazines








A 1918 BAR gunners belt.

 

SKYLINEDRIVE,I believe that larger size items are better than small sizes. Worth more and more desireable. Besides,if it fits you could wear it. I wear my non-reversable splinter parka,Luft M-43 hat and other original clothing. I used to fit into all of my German uniforms. Not any more. Rich A. in Pa.

 

The "powder horn" is the DUI of the 181st Infantry Regiment, but bif you read the units WWII history it raises more questions then get answered:

Quoted from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/181st_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)

 

German Army "must". A razor blade sharpener...

 

that's quite an original object kai and the Ostfront map behind it makes it look good too

 

I ddin't even know such a thing existed! Is it powered by a pull through cord?

 

Yes. Funnily enough I even managed to find a clip in Youtube...

Little double edge razor blade sharpener in Bakeltie box - YouTube

 

M2 tripod for a .30 machine gun, dated 1942.

 

More stuff. KAMO shirt and dlr 42 code 88 m.m. air burst fuse. Rich A. in Pa.

 

1941 Billingual Ausweis for workers, allowing the owner to cross the Franco-Belgian border once and valid at at two checkpoints only.

It has the Feldpostnummer stamp from the Kommandantur of Charleville (Ardennes) .





the other side is not filled in (except a prefect stamp) because it for familly members and transport cost which wa snot needed for this 21 year old man who was probably still single.

 

Guard marked M3 trench knife made by Utica. I think that the M8A1 sheat is from the 60's though, apparently only BM.Co. made them during WWII. I hope I will find one soon!












Another Utica but with an M6 sheath made by S.B.L. (Service Boots and Leggins)