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.
WW2 2
Excellent condition 2" Mortar Mk.I HE DUMMY/DRILL round. With 1942 dated dummy HE fuse and 1942 dated fin, the 1943 dated body retains 90% of it's original lacquer. The round is weighted to simulate it's normal 2lb+ operational weight. In excellent, strippable condition. INERT
British 1940 MkII helmet.
Excellent condition 1940 dated, British MkII helmet with original net. Retaining nearly all of it's textured paint finish with clear date and manufacturer's details to the rim, RO & Co (Rubery Owen & Co.Ltd,Darlaston.). Size 7, 1940 dated liner, dusty but in good condition. Very good condition example.
Cavalry Officers matched collar tabs.
An original matched pair of collar patches for a Third Reich Cavalry Officer. Would go on the collar of the standard service tunic. In perfect condition, with yellow waffenfarb on the bullion type material. Have been on a tunic.
Fly button compass.
Compass formed fron an ordinary brass service fly button. One button swings on top of the other, pointing due north, luminous. In good condition with some oxidation.
Fly button compass.
Compass formed fron an ordinary brass service fly button. One button swings on top of the other, pointing due north, luminous. In good condition with some oxidation.
Luftwaffe Officer's insignia grouping.
An excellent condition grouping of insignia taken from a Luftwaffe officer. Yellow piped, sew-in pattern shoulder boards for the rank of Leutnant with matching bullion collar patches and to complete the set a superb bullion breast eagle. Both the shoulder boards, collar patches and the breast eagle display clear evidence of having been removed from a uniform but are in excellent condition with some very minor grubiness to the collar patches. Bullion is clean and un powdered. An excellent matching set.
WWII British Sten bayonet.
An original Bayonet,Sten Mk.I. An unmarked example of this very scarce bayonet with only some 75,000 examples being manufactured following it's adoption in 1942. Designed to utilise the scabbard of the similar No.4 bayonet, this example is accompanied by an unmarked Mk.I scabbard. Although unmarked, the fillet welds holding the blade to the socket are typical of those attributed to the work of the one of the main assemblers, Grundy (Teddington) Ltd, at their Somerset Works in Teddington. In very good condition, retaining approx. 35-40% of it's original black finish. Some areas of very minor corrosion. (For a more detailed study of the Sten Mk.I bayonet I would recommend Graham Priest's 'The Spirit of the Pike').
Water Protection Police buckle.
Die struck, gilded aluminium buckle for the Wasserschutzpolizei or Water Protection police. Clearly manufacturer marked for Friederich Linden, Ludenscheid and 1940 dated. In good overall condition with some wear to bottom edge with gilding rating 60%+. Scarce buckle.
EARLY SENIOR RLB OFFICER ARMBAND-DARK BLUE
This is a REALLY nice, early RLB senior officers armband. Dark blue cotton quality material, BEVO type early RLB badge to the front. Silver or gilt bullion lines stiched to top and bottom. GES GESCH embroydered into reverse seam. Have not had one this nice before, a super variation.
Unissued WW2 ATS Field service cap.
Unissued O/Rs, ATS coloured field service cap, size 7 1/4. In the colours of the ATS, dark brown with green piping and beech brown crown. Clean interior with size stamp. In excellent unmothed condition with no badge or holes for fitting a badge.