Hi guys, is this in your opinion a shield made of cupal?, thanks and regards, Juan

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Hi all!
My friend sent me a photo of a cup with interesting marking. If I’m not mistaken, it is RAD (ArbeitsDienst), Gau 11 (Mittelschlesien? ).

I have a question - were these Trinkbecher on the list of official RAD equipment? Since a similar model of Trinkbecher was used by the SA, HJ, NSKK ..etc (which, like RAD, used a Feldflasche, not having its own cup in the set), I think that RAD employees also had to have a cup.
In the "Uniformen Markt" I found some confirmation of this, but I would really like to know exactly, from official sources.

Best regards, Michael

What to the experts think? Hennrich Himmler flag!

Hi guys,

i saw this wooden box in a Wochenschau video about 50 birthday of Adolf Hitler. Did anybody know more about this box and if it survived the war?

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The nickel-coated brass casing of what looks to be a 7.7 cm shell is stamped by the well-known German munitions manufacturer PATRONENFABRIK KARLSRUHE 1904 and has been compressed from its original height down to about 5 cm. The casing is drilled and threaded for a 1 cm primer. It is fitted out with a removable ashtray. The photos show the shape and the markings (to highlight the markings, I edited the photo to reduce the reflection from the highly polished base) I know similar items have been in past forums and hope that the experts can (a) provide me the nomenclature of this particular shell and (b) explain whether such precise compression was achieved in or outside of the Patronenfabrik factory.

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Picked up a decent machete recently. Marked Defence Dept. DC 1944.

I believe that the manufacturer of these machetes marked DC was Die Casters Pty Ltd which was a Melbourne based firm.

Regards,

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