Militaria and WW2 history forum and topsites. Sõja ajaloo portaal.
I have just joined this forum today but have been viewing it for a few months. I would first like to say how great this forum is, and would like to thank the moderators and Ade for all of the brilliant contributions to this forum and in keeping everything in order.
Now iam 14, but i started taking up interest in this subject since before i was 10. I have been doing lots of reading and research and i have never been bored of the subject. Problem is, my knowledge exceeds my collection, which contains only a few items passed down from my ancestors. :confused:
Because i have studied my friends and family friends’ collections for a while now, i thought that it was time that i get started, and i thought this would be a good place to start.:)
I have long been interested in german militaria ( who isn’t? :D) and also a little canadian militaria, from ww2. So i have come here to start collecting, and i will ask that if there are some items amongst your collections that you believe are good stepping stones to a collection( aka dont have to be rare or expensive), and you want to sell them, Then iam here! They can be rusty or shiny, big or small, but as long as you think they are good for a new collector, then you’ve got some possible interest here:) You can send me a PM or just reply to this thread, whatever suits you!
Thanks very much for your time, and for accepting me into your community!
Thanks again,
Dolan
Picked this up at a flea market this morning. I normally don’t collect Japanese items, but this was just a beautiful canteen, I couldn’t resist it, plus the price was right. There are Japanese characters on the body of the canteen, so I’m guessing the original owner may have put his name on it? I don’t read Japanese, so I have no idea. By the condition, I’m guessing it was a souvenir that came home in a duffle bag. The asking price was $75, which I thought was a fair price considering it’s condition. Perhaps I paid more than I should have, but if I could only have one good Japanese canteen, it was going to be this one.
It’s going in the rest of my Burma collection…….think $75 was a good price?
Cheers!
I thought I share a few pics of my British WW2 bayonet collection. Nothing too exotic here save for the cruciform spike bayo and the No. 7. Surprisingly, you can still find some of the more difficult to find spike bayonets in common areas like surplus shops and gun shops. I’ve had these in my collection for quite a while now and enjoy collecting the variations of the spike and blade bayonets. Luckily, many of these can still be had for not much money, but I noticed that every year, they seem to go up in price like anything else.
From left to right is the No. 4 Mk 1 "cruciform" bayonet, No. 4 Mk 2 bayonet, No. 4 Mk 2* bayo, No. 4 Mk 2* with steel scabbard, No. 4 Mk 3 with plastic scabbard, (lower row) No. 7 Mk 1 and No. 9, Mk1. The No. 9 bayo is actually post WW2, but was designed for the No. 4 Enfield.
Some of the scabbards are actually rarer than the bayos themselves. The all steel tube scabbard for the Mk2* is rather difficult to find as is the plastic ones. If you run across these in your travels, grab them while you can!
Cheers!
