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A guy is offering to sell this helmet to me. It is either an M35 or M40 helmet. The guy told me that his great uncle picked this helmet up off a dead German during WW2. He said last year the helmet was passed down to him and since he is not a collector he has decided to sell it. I am 99% sure it is a legit Heer helmet, but I just want to get a second or third opinion. Thanks

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This is the last item in my collection that I am selling. There is not much time left on the auction. All bids are very much appreciated as funds are going towards my immigration to Canada. Thank you!

*VERY RARE* SS 2nd Panzer Regiment Dog Tag - eBay (item 140588915532 end time Aug-13-11 07:55:49 PDT)

Here are some pictures of a neat grouping of P1941 utility uniform items from my Marine friend John. John was in the 4th Marine division during WWII and fought on Iwo Jima and Roi/Namur. When John first answered my newspaper advertisement, he was almost embarrassed about the seabag of “junk” that he had. When I dumped it out, it was a treasure trove of WWII, USMC HBT uniforms. Included were the M1941 blouses and trousers I am showing here. I believe these two items have never been worn or laundered since the delicate tags are still perfect. According to Moran, the blouses appear to be P1941 pattern and the trousers are P1941 second pattern, without the watch pocket. Interesting, the trousers have some rust stains on them or they would be in gorgeous, mint condition, but I can not figure out how the stains got on them. At some time in the past, they must have touched something that was actively rusting.

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Hello everyone,

About a month ago, I won these authentic miniature British medals off of ebay. They are the 1914-15 star, the WWI War Medal, The British WWI Victory Medal, The WW2 War Medal, and the Australian Service Medal 1939-45. I was curious though; Does anyone on here know what the value of these minis are? I am attempting to catalog my collection and any help that I can get is greatly appreciated cool militaria

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So I was at an antique store today, and stumbled upon a bavarian belt from ww1. It wasnt an NCO type, it had no bronze. It did however come with a complete (and very aged looking) belt. But, I have no way of knowing whether the belt is original, who knows, someone could have attached the buckle to any old belt. Unfortunately no pics, but I can explain. Dark brown leather, almost black. Along the sides of it were little loops. They looked like the type of cowboy belts where they tucked bullets into little loops on the belt, but this seems impractical. Were these loops for attaching supplies such as bayonets, holsters etc? Thanks Guys!
And btw, it was $75 Canadian.

Back when I was a kid, in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, my family would go to visit my Grandparents quite regularly. I was one of four kids and it became a tradition that when we went to visit, we would always ask Grampa for some candy or “Charms” as we called it. He would disappear downstairs into the basement and come back up with a little, square can, which he would carefully open with the key on the bottom. After he removed the vitamin tablets, to protect us, we would dig in and pig out on the candy and gum in this little can. The candy and gum were a little stale, but we enjoyed them never the less. We went through this tradition probably 50 times over my childhood and never knew where he kept this stash of “magic” candy cans or what they really were.

In reality somewhere in the time after WWII, my Grampa must have purchased one or more master crates of what are known as Life Raft Rations. Inside was a supply of packages of charms, hard candies, gum and vitamin tablets. Knowing my Grandfather, he would not have paid very much for these rations. After college when I started collecting militaria, I found out that these rations were from WWII and had some value, but of course I never saved one from my childhood. I had always been looking for one of these and finally about 10 years ago, I found this one sitting lonely on a table at a gun show. However, it is a bit too valuable for me to open and quench my childhood cravings for Charms. I thought you all might enjoy this story from my youth.

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I was digging though my Ordinance box and thought that these two firing devices or booby traps, would be interesting to you all. The first is an M1A1 Pressure Firing Device attached to a grenade. This M1A1 is mint and still has the two safeties attached to it. One is a split pin toward the end that keeps the firing pin from striking the primer. The other safety is a sheet metal clip that keeps the pressure plate from being depressed. Note that there are two strings attached to both safeties for easy removal. The assembly with the prongs is very versatile and can be shortened by removing the interconnecting rod and screwing it directly to the pressure plate.

An interesting note is the primer/detonator that screws onto the end of this device. These are always missing when you buy the device, because they are the things the go boom, when the device triggers. These detonators are double threaded things with a smaller fine thread on one end and a course, larger thread on the other end that is the same thread as a grenade.

The reason I bring up the subject of the detonator is that I was at the OGCA gun show a long while back and stopped at a table that had a junk box with three black cans that were priced $3.00 each and were marked REPLACEMENT PARTS FOR ANTI PERSONNEL PRACTICE MINE T4 10- IGNITOR ASSEMBLIES. I was intrigued and bought one of the cans and opened it up to look inside and then immediately bought the last two cans. What was inside is shown below and were practice igniters that will not only work for all of the various firing devices, but also the rebounding type, anti personnel, mines. The detonator section is made up of a small powder charge inside a black enameled paper tube. When triggered, the igniter times for about 4 seconds and the paper end explodes with about the same power as a couple of firecrackers. Not enough to detonate high explosives, but enough to act as a noise maker/attention getter that the booby trap/mine had been activated, during practice. But the important thing is that live, or not, the metal part still acts as an essential, coupler for the various firing devices to grenades/mines, etc. These couplers seem to be in short supply, compared to the Firing Devices.

Lastly, I have an M5 Pressure Release Firing Device that is designed to be used on the underside of a mine to make it more difficult to remove from the ground. When the mine is lifted, this mousetrap type device detonates it. The M5 comes with a primer called a “Standard base” which is not powerful enough, by itself, to detonate a mine. It is screwed into a second assembly called an Activator which has enough bang to blow up the mine. The M5 can also be used to explode a grenade, but the “Standard base” would still need to be replaced with a detonator, or an Activator added. This M5 is also mint and complete with the safety locking pin and string to remove it. I got this M5 off of Ebay and was really pleasantly surprised that when it arrived, the detonator was still live on it, with the protective cap.

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