I acquired close to 100 loose rounds of what I believe to be original rounds of 6.5 X 50 mm Japanese ammo. There is not any color on the case mouth that I can see. From the info that I could find there likely should be. Do you think reloaded ammo? Was standard ball ammo no colored coded? There is not any primer staking. I could not find a date when they started to stake the primers. All thoughts and opinions are appreciated. Thank you for looking. I will use the loose rounds to fill stripper clips for display.
John

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New here and have been collecting since the mid 80´s. My maine focus is german and finnish militaria especially awards and badges. Wound badges is one of my maine areas of collecting these days and have been collecting them the last +10 years by now.

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Help needed to ID this type of flag. I have various people take a look and said it could be an SA unit flag. Someone also mentioned it is possibly a Panzer flag so any information about it or other opinions would be great to here. Also is the item a rare thing as there is not much information online about it. Thank you in advance.

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I’m just wondering, if I were to buy a complete Erkennungmarke that was ground dug/of unknown origin how am I to know it isn’t grave robbing and how do I identify tags that haven’t been grave robbed?

What a first appears as a salty M35 Luft is in fact an interesting little helmet. I’ve always sought either named helmets or ones that have an interesting story and this one is no exception. An ET62 Luftwaffe lid which originally started out as a DD helmet finished in Luftwaffe blue/grey, the helmet received a hand brushed overpaint at some point with a darker paint which appears to include some form of chips or other media mixed into the paint. In certain areas the original blue can be seen breaking through. The lot number appears to be 426! So I’m assuming a digit is hidden beneath the paint.

This was alleged to have been picked up during the Ardennes Offensive by Lt. Glenn C. Adams from Haynesville Maine, USA. Adams was a forward air observer calling in artillery and was also a vet of Korea. During his war service he was shot twice and received two bronze and a silver star along with several oak leaf clusters. I have not yet looked in the liner for unit markings but hope to find out more about the original owner Mullerleile if possible.

Hope you enjoy! Andy

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Some of you may be interested in seeing this selection of fake swords coming out of China.
Seen at the Gem Show in Tucson, AZ, Feb. 2020.

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I am new to this community and was wondering if anybody could give me some feedback on this krim shield I bought 2 years ago at a gun show. I believe it to be original and it looks in relatively good condition. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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