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.
No.3 Commando shoulder title and Combined Ops badg
Embroidered No.3 Commando shoulder title. A good used example, clearly having been removed from a uniform along with the classic Combinded Operations badge. These examples came from a No.3 Commando grouping with another combination of shoulder title and sleeve badge. In excellent used condition, moth free. No.3 Commando had the distinction of carrying out one of the first raids on the Lofotens. This was followed by Dieppe, Sicily and Italy before Normandy and the Rhine Crossing under their colourful CO. Durnford-Slater.
1950's Scots Guards recruiting card/poster.
25cm x 38cm approx. card recruiting poster for the Scots Guards featuring a bemedalled and fearsome veteran in full uniform with the strapline ' Great Scot in a Great Regiment - The Scots Guards'. Hanging ribbon and fold out stand to reverse. In good clean, bright condition with some minor creasing and bruising.
MINT PARTY/SA ARMBAND with paper RZM label.
Purchased with the pictures listed on the site. This is a virtually stone mint cotton SA armband. Three piece construction, red cotton body, white circle separately applied and black swastika in moire cloth strips, stiched to the circle. Mint RZM label stuck to the reverse of the cloth.
LARGE REICHSKREIGSFLAG DIRECT FROM VET
I was very pleased and privilaged to purchase a number of items from a WW2 veterans son. His father served in the Royal Navy up until 1944 and was then seconded into the very secret and specialised '30 AU' Assault Unit commandos. His knowledge of German and naval engineering proved invaluable towards the end of the war,when they races to capture enemy information and individuals!! This Kreigsflad was captured by him, along with daggers, documents etc and bought back at the end of the war. I have a copy of a statement from his son. Flag is slightly faded, and has some small moth holes in one corner. It is a large 2m x 3.35m and is marked along the rope edge with the eagle and swas with 'M' underneath. Rope is present. A great looking flag, that's really got some history!
Japanese Good Luck Flag.
Japanese yosegaki hinomaru or good luck flag. Approx 70 x 80cms printed on silk with two leather reinforced corners and cotton ties. This example is covered in characters and has the kanji characters for the slogan Ki Buun Chokyu (I pray your military fortunes are long lasting) across the top. Both leather corner reinforcements and ties are intact and there is a prominent hanko or shrine seal to the top r/h corner. Some staining and some very small holes which do not detract from this excellent and 'busy' example.
Herman Goring Division shoulder straps.
Pair of slip-on woollen shoulder straps piped in white for Herman Goring Division personnel. Look to be of later war manufacture being made from reclaimed wool with differing internal lining. Excellent, probably unissued condition.
FANTASTIC PARTY STREAMER/FLAG from Plon in Germany
This is a superb quality party type triangular streamer/drape. Captured from a base in Plon, Germany, by a Lance Sergeant in the Scots Guards. Double sided, it measured approx.9'x 2' 6" long. Is of high quality red cotton. Has sewn sleeve at the wider end to accomodate a pole of some description. Sewn into the hem down both long sides is a hemp rope. This ends in a loop at the point, and was obviously there to keep it stretched out or taught in some way. A most unusual pennant, with the letter of provenance for the vet who liberated it in May 1945.
CLOTH LUFTWAFFE PILOT'S BADGE.
An excellent quality Luftwaffe Pilot's badge in contrasting grey cottons. Purchased with a collection of Luftwaffe cloth items,this was mounted under glass and padded at the back. I removed it and the cloth seems to be nearly mint. Good quality cotton and clear lines, looks to be a nice badge.
O.T.C. Whistle.
Nickelled brass ' Acme Thunderer 'snail type whistle, marked to the OTC on one side and a coat of arms to the other. The coat of arms could well be from All Souls College, Oxford. Whistle has a dark blue and white woven lanyard. Unusual to find whistles marked to Officer Training Corps, more so with identifiable crests.
Luftwaffe officer's breast eagle for white summer
Alloy, pin-back Luftwaffe officer's breast eagle for the white summer tunic. Clear Assmann manufacturer's mark to reverse, intact pin, clear detail with slight overall toning. Good example.