SA or SS Dagger frog
Here is a not official Frog for a SA Dagger … or for a SS Dagger of a cavallerie unit in brown colour… no stamps
Archive for July, 2016
Paar Schulterklappen, Schulterstücke, Unteroffizier, Flak-Artillerie, Luftwaffe
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HEER Gottlieb
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As I promised, will show you my finds. Great buckle from Gottlieb, a lot of paint, good tab.
As I promised, will show you my finds. Great buckle from Gottlieb, a lot of paint, good tab.
WK2 Winterwende Hose 100% Original
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Kragenspiegel Luftwaffe Mannschaft dunkelgrün neu (e505-)
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My Finnish Army hand Grenade collection
Here are some photos of my Finnish Army Grenade collection , thought i would show them as you dont see them so often all are 100% inert
Pics : La Gleize Show 2016
Managed to tack a visit to La Gleize onto my 2016 vacation, so here are a selection of photos. Every trip to the Ardennes I’ve done since 1987 has been via the Marche/Hotton/Trois Ponts road, which always ( always ! ) means a stop at the Grandmesnil Panther.
Up early next morning and off to the Fair. A nice little convoy of Kubelwagen & Schwimmwagen had made the trip…
On the stalls, the usual amount of ‘rust’, but the near-absence of deactivated munitions was very noticeable ( hardly so much as a deactivated rifle cartridge….) -
Someone had obviously dug up a hoard of relic Luftwaffe helmets, some with remnants of liners. Bit too rusty for me, but about 2/3 of them had gone by lunchtime….
And it’s somehow fun to rummage the stalls with a genuine Bulge backdrop as you walk downhill from the village -
It’s always amusing to see pricing trends. In 2015, a hoard of ‘Panzer’-type blowlamps had obviously been found. There were dozens available for E20-E30. This year, I only saw three - and one was on offer for E160 ! :rolleyes:
So, by mid-morning I’d bought an S-mine parts box, and a very cheap original two-volume set of ‘Tiger im Kampf’. What I’d hoped to find was a fairly good, well-marked and labelled Pak/KwK43 box and I saw four. I was glad to ‘keep my powder dry’ because right at the bottom of the hill a collector from Lille was selling some choice kisten. The box I chose, without handles but with a very fine label and an affordable price, fit the bill quite well …
The fun wasn’t quite over…..heading for France via Luxemburg two days later, I spotted this and almost stood the car on its’ nose……
It’s at a tiny place called Heinerscheid. I dimly remembered seeing it in Battle of the Bulge Then & Now years ago, but it’s in better condition now. A genuine relic of the Bulge, it would have gone rather nicely with my box. But no, it didn’t seem to be for sale ! 
Kragenspiegel Luftwaffe Mannschaft goldgelb Flieger neu (e508-)
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Kragenspiegel Luftwaffe Mannschaft hellgrün neu (e510-)
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100th anniversary of the battle of the Somme
Yesterday - July 2nd, I attended the 100th anniversary Somme event at Heaton Park, Manchester. The organisers put on a fantastic display, but unfortunately the attendance by the general public was no that good. I gave my talk on the Accrington Pals - and the finer points of the SMLE, in the afternoon in the speakers tent, and it all appeared to go down well. I met up with some really nice people from the re-enacting community. There was a serving officer (Major) from the regular army who was dressed up as a Major in the Manchester Regiment - and he didn’t half look the part.
I found the TV coverage very good on the Friday. But I was quite surprised by Dame Shirley Williams when she spoke about the ‘Pals’ battalions, it was obvious that she didn’t have a clue what she was on about - and she had to be corrected by historian, Richard van Emden. Then a serving soldier was interviewed, and he was going on about the 20,000 casualties on the first day of the battle - and then the TV host interviewing him said that 60,000 were killed on the first day. Where on earth do these people get their information from at all? do they employ monkeys to do the research for them?
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