Sold Gallery
These pages display a number of the rare items that I have had the pleasure of selling. To view more details and a larger photograph please click on the thumbnail picture.
Luftwaffe boot knife.
WW2 German Luftwaffe Nahkampfmesser or fighting knife. Slab sided wooden grips with steel crossguard and approx. 17cm single edged blade with large false edge. Luftwaffe acceptance mark to ricasso. Enamelled steel scabbard with sprung steel clip for attachment to belt or the side of a boot. Good, clean condition, blade with some staining and clear signs of sharpening and use. Scabbard worn but in good clean condition with no corrosion. Good example.
WW1 German 5th Fusilier Regt shoulder straps.
A good original pair of sew-in shoulder straps for the German 1915 tunic. Field grau woolen boards with white infantry piping and featuring a felt and embroidery device indicating the 5th Queen Victoria of Sweden Fusilier Regiment. In excellent condition with some minor mothing, mostly to the reverse.
797 Co RASC 'Forgotten fleet' grouping.
WW2 Medal and paperwork grouping to T/117495 Dvr. F.M.Briggs 797Co. RASC. Briggs, a veteran of Dunkirk, served with 797 Co. RASC, one of the Motor Boat Companies, who operated in and around the Adriatic, Italy and Sicily, often involved with special and partisan operations in this area, transporting personnel,supplies and weapons. This grouping includes boxed medals, with entitlement in paybook, insignia, paybook, release book, driving permits and various other military ephemera. Interesting grouping to part of the 'Forgotten Fleet' that would bear further research.
RFC Officer's side cap.
A good used example of a WW1 RFC officer's side cap. Quilted lining with large silk tailor's label for a London outfitters with RFC buttons and a bronzed O/R's style die stamped cap badge. All insignia appears to be original to the cap with good patina and impressions left in the whipcord material. Minor mothing in five places with a slightly grubby, used interior. A good, honest example
WW1 No.36 MkI Grenade with gas check.
A fine condition British, WW1, No.36M MkI Hand Grenade with base plate (gas check Mk2 ) for use in the cup discharger as fitted to the SMLE rifle. Manufactured by J.C.Co in 1917, both the body and baseplug share the same manufacturer. The gas check shares the same date with a different maker. The grenade is fully strippable and is in excellent, original condition. INERT
1930's/early WW2 Novelty Guardsman sweet container
Unusual and scarce novelty sweet container. One of a series of papier-mache figures ( including ' Old Bill ' ) produced for ' Walters' Palm Toffee ' , ' Sam & His Musket ' is a rare survivor especially with it's paper tag. Circa late 1930's/early wartime this example is in excellent, bright condition.
WW1 No.36 MkI Grenade with gas check.
A fine condition British, WW1, No.36M MkI Hand Grenade with base plate (gas check Mk2 ) for use in the cup discharger as fitted to the SMLE rifle. Manufactured by J.C.Co in 1917, both the body and baseplug share the same manufacturer. The gas check shares the same date with a different maker. The grenade is fully strippable and is in excellent, original condition. INERT
WW1 British RFC pilot's wing.
WWI British issue RFC pilot's wing. Embroidered silky cotton on dark blue, typical WW1 RFC flat wing. In excellent, clean condition, unfaded with clear evidence of having been removed from a uniform.
WW2 RAF Pathfinder log book grouping.
Logbook and ephemera to Sgt.J.R.Powell an aircrew signaller with 7 Squadron accompanied by research.Powell previously served with the RAF in a ground role including service in Africa before remustering as aircrew. Logbook records air gunner training from September 1943, navigation with No.8 (O)A.F.U. and then wireless training with 28 OTU. Joined No.7 Squadron at Oakington flying Lancaster IIIs flying his first operation, a daylight mission to Nordstern on 13/9/44. Powell went onto fly 25 night and 13 day operations completing his operational flying with food drops over Holland in Operation Manna, POW repatriation and cooks tours. Logbook is accompanied by a colour tinted photograph showing Powell wearing his pathfinder badge which is endorsed by the original award certificate signed by AVM Bennett. Also Powell's Signaller's brevet and his modified cap badge used as a Pathfinder's badge. Also comes with a small amount of research mainly concerning 7 Sqn's activities. Would reward further personal research concerning Powell. All items in clean condition,
WW1 British trench cooker.
Forerunner of the hexamine stove, this folding tin stove was fuelled by solid fuel tablets and retailed under the name 'Anglo's Trench Fires'. Contained in it's original card box with the slogan ' a boon for dugouts, tents and trenches' this cooker is a scarce survivor of the WW1 Tommy's equipment. Box in stained and slightly fragile condition with some loss to one corner, but with all of it's original contents.