Well here is my semi-auto MG08 Spandau Maxim on the sled mount. I need to refinish the new side plate but it is now functional again.
The water jacket still wears its 100 year old original camouflage paint as does the sled with it’s hand painted III Machine Gun Corp markings. I have the sled tools, AA mount, spare barrel, armor shields, belts, steam chest, and a Zf12 optic. I still need the spare locks and broken shell extractors for the sled boxes and a steam hose though. Hope you enjoy the pictures.
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Here I have one of the more harder to come by M1C liners as ruddersrangers44 (Jake) can testify to. The liner is still made of the duck cotton and resin which had been done this way since WW2. At the same time they were producing the nylon laminated liners which were to take over the duck cotton resin liners. A transitional batch of these M1C liners with the new suspension were contracted out to Westinghouse, Pat-Ric and Marmac between 1964 to 1965. This particular liner has no manufacturers logo but does have the government US 19 marked in the crown. The press then must have been a government leased press to one of the liner manufacturers. Looking at the contract info on the liners suspension it has the date 14 SEP 1964 and the only company with that contract date to manufacture this liner is Westinghouse producing 51,000 units. There is also a worn white painted numeral 7 on the liner which was known to be done by Westinghouse only. The liner appears to have retained its original factory paint with no over paint. A very well used liner in good condition.
The steel helmet body is a McCord with fitted paratrooper straps and is a rear seamed swivel bale with the heat stamp prefix of M197A (1950s). Unusually there is no - between the M and 197A and even more unusual the stamp has been pressed halfway between the bale and the front brow (see pic). I have only ever seen the stamp directly under the brow on these postwar Mccords from the ones I own and have observed online.
The Mitchell is a late 1965 manufactured cover and is in very worn condition as is the camouflage band.
Jake if I’ve missed anything out Let me know bud :p
Thanks for looking guys cool militaria
Hi all. I know this is a bit out of the forum’s ordinary period but I know there are a few medal guys on here so thought I might as well throw this up. Got these today and was just after opinions. I know the British medal has been partially erased but I believe this has been done through wear and tear rather than deliberately. I think this is a depot named medal as opposed to an officially impressed one. From what I gather the Sardinian issue Turkish medal is commonly found in British groups and has been retrofitted with a swivel suspender. Again, I have observed this retrofit with other medals issued to the Royal Artillery. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking.
One of our colleagues kindly asked if I would post an image of a Kragenspiegel from my collection. I do not normally collect loose insignia, however, I did add this set that Martin Stiles had on offer because of the Bayreuth Montur I had in the collection. The Hersteller "349" is of interest to him and I am happy to assist whenever I can.
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