Hey guys
Well, I got back to 'my' airfield as soon as I could after the snow cleared. I had a nice range of finds this time around but it is certainly getting a lot harder to get them now. In the early days I'd get this kind of haul from one specific location. On this visit, these finds are from four separate locations. I kept having to move because I have virtually cleared the place out now !
Still, at least that's good news for you guys because I will finally be able to tell you all where these finds have come from :D :D
Anyways, some nice stuff today and some unusual items.
Firstly before any cleaning.........
And now after cleaning and dumping of hunks of crap.....
First thing I
think is possibly the lid off a mess tin of some description. Anyone identify it ? The scratched name on the front appears to be Grinnan but I can't be too sure.
Now three items that i haven't been able to identify. Any help would be appreciated.
Some nice lids this time around. Not found any for ages ! This is the fourth Mansion polish tin I've found, and about the tenth 'Springs Delights' jam jar lid. I wonder if they used Mansion Polish for their brass buttons or was it for the barracks ? Also got a Ponds lid this time and what looks like the top off a sugar shaker (or possibly Talc ?)
A lock off something and a lever from inside a mortice lock.
A very strange lens. Looks like it could be off a torch or something but it is very ....erm...... 'fish eye' :D Anyone recognise it ?
I was pleased with these two.......gaskets for Merlin engine exhaust ports :D
A nice American button, a 1945 dated thre'penny bit, a German Pfennig dated 1942 and a pebble button. I thought I'd found as many German items as i was going to until these two turned up.
Ok now these two bits really interest me but I am unsure as to what one of them is. The 'jack' plug is almost certainly from a flying helmet and is to 'plug in' the radio into the headset in the cockpit. The other bit I can't find. It's an Air Ministry part and is the right colour to be from a cockpit but I can't track the little bugger down ! Can anyone help ?
As usual...plenty of cartridges. All WW2 dated.
A 20mm
A couple of 50cals with the remains of the link still in place and a chopped through 50cal.
A 30cal M1 carbine cartridge and some 303s, including blanks.
And also two German 7.92mm cartridges ! I know that POWs were housed at this site at the end of the war, so maybe they had them and dropped them ?
And lastly a spoon that has come up astonishingly clean with a bit of a rub down. I am getting a nice collection now with various stamps. I have an 'AM' tea caddy spoon, a 'US' stamped desert spoon, an 'RAF' stamped fork and now this little beauty. She's a bit worn but the crest is there none the less !
Anyways that's it for now although I am planning a big week very soon where I am taking some time off and getting 3 or 4 visits in in a week.....gonna try some new sites :D :D
Hope you like the stuff.
Steve T
