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.
RAF Escape button compass.
Standard large size RAF button by Gaunt & Son, London concealing a brass-bodied escape compass. This is accessed by turning the shank of the button to release the threaded button reverse. Another of the more well known escape aids designed by Clayton Hutton\'s team at MI9. Patinated overall with freely moving thread and fully functioning compass. Scarce.
SMALL SIZED KREIGSFLAG-NEAR MINT.
A purchase from America, where most of the goodies still lie!! This Kreigsflag is a decent smaller size, measures 1m x 1.7m (3'3"x 5' approx) so is ideal for display on in a drawer as a back-drop. Thuis flag is in near perfect condition apart from a small L shaped tear, right in the middle circle!! It has obviously hung in a veterans or collectors den, and he smoked!! As the complete flag is slightly brown tinted!!! Complete with rope ends, and well marked with the size and the maker on the re-inforced hem.
WW2 British No.4 Mk.I bayonet.
Original British No.4 Mk1 cruciform bayonet introduced in November 1939 for the No.4 Rifle. Clearly stamped with Royal cypher, designation and SM for Singer Manufacturing.. Complete with correct No.4 Mk1 scabbard. Excellent overall condition, clean, with the majority of the original black finish.
GERMAN WW2 MOTORCYCLE FACTORY ARMBAND/PENNANT
This is a really unusual set, acquired from a dealer in Germany. There is a red party type armband with the ARDIE-WERKE badge in bevo type weave stiched to the cloth. As a companion, there is a small car pennant with the swastika one side and the same ARDIE-WERKE badge on the reverse. The ARDIE-WERK company made motorcycles before/after and during the war. They were quite a well known company, with some interesting machines. Armband must have been worn by a factory guard or official and the pennant flown from his car. Quality items, the pennant is double sided with a black and white piped edge, and a canvas sleeve for the rod. Both in excellent condition. Never had something like this before.
WW1 Scottish spats.
A scarce 1914 dated, pair of spats for use by Scottish regiments. Heavy duty canvas lined with heavy cotton with button closures and leather retainer . Size 2 with paper manufacturer's label (E.Penton & Son 1914) to the interior. In good, sound condition with some staining. Bottom buttons missing from both examples and in both cases appear to have been deliberately removed. Uncommon.
Escape compass.
Small 15mm compass intended to be concealed or used as part of an escape kit. Brass cased compass, generally considered to be of British manufacture, black painted body, undamaged glass. Devised by M.I.9 the department charged with facilitating the escape of British Prisoners of War.
DAF desk ornament.
Chrome plated DAF desk ornament. Taking the form of the symbol of the Deutsches Arbeits Front mounted onto a stand with the whole item being chromium plated. Clear manufacturer's mark to base. Some lifting and scratching of plate but otherwise an impressive and heavy item.
Concealed blade.
11.5cm blackened, fluted blade designed to be concealed, often in pencils. These were sent into POW camps or provided as part of a kit issue and the pencil broken open to remove the blade. Two holes are provided in the top of the blade to enable the blade to be mounted or bound onto or into a handle, in this example they are hidden by string bound over them. Minor marking to fluted blade.
MG34 AA 'spiderweb sight'.
An original MG34 Kreiskorn or AA sight. Classic spiderweb pattern with sliding collar fixing. Several waffenamt inspection marks. Excellent condition.
Collar Stud Escape Compass
One of the more igenious concealed compasses from Clayton Hutton\'s team at MI9. This pattern was designed to resemble the collar studs that were generally available from Woolworths and other retailers. Originally the compass face would have been concealed by a coating of white paint which would have been scratched off to allow it\'s use as a compass. This example in good working order with very slight traces of whitener around the rim and some minor scratches to compass face. A scarce example of this pattern of escape aid.