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.
SOE/OSS Spring Cosh.
A good example of the spring cosh made for the OSS and SOE. 18.5cms long when closed and 43cms extended complete with original green leather covering. A little over 8000 coshes were manufactured by the Timms Spring Co. of Ohio of which 1000 were delivered to the British Ministry of Supply. This example in good operable condition with some minor dings and dents and toned overall.
Eickhorn Kundendienst - dagger catalogue.
The Eickhorn dagger catalogue, an A5 ring binder style catalogue containing photographic and textual descriptions of all patterns of daggers, swords and bayonets. Running to 10 seperate sub sections covering the main organisations of the Reich and including many colour plates and the all important seperate price list. Ex Tony Oliver collection the binder has suffered some water damage and the not unusual failure of the two rivets that secure the ring binder. These have been replaced by two small bolts. All contents present and clean with one sellotape repair to the fold out bayonet etch plate. Some written English translation to the subject dividers but an otherwise good and useful reference. Priced to accomodate it's condition which sounds worse than it actually is
RLB Officers 1st. type armband.
A really high quality RLB armband in blue silk like material. RLB badge in 'bevo' woven into the material. Perfect condition. Early type with early badge, before the swaz on the chest motif took over.
S.A.T.Vol,No.27 6-pr.,7cwt A-T Gun 1944.
1944 dated,128pg manual for the 6pdr.,7cwt Anti-Tank Gun the standard issue AT gun for the British Army. The manual gives a general description and then sections on gun drill, firing, stripping,mechanism,sighting,maintenance and ammuntion. In good overall condition with some creasing to the cover and light marking.
N.S.D.A.P. building or hall drape.
Large, approx 1m x 4m, double-sided building banner or podium drape.Printed swastika on seperate white circle sown on to main drape. Hanging loops to one end. In excellent, moth free condition.
FABULOUS THIRD REICH POLICE NCO'S VISOR. Nr MINT
A really good find! A virtually mint visor cap being Feldgendarmerie, for the 'town' Police, green piping. There is one slight piece of damage to the rear of the cap, looks as though a small piece has been sliced out of the crown. I think this cap was packed away and caught in a hinge of a trunk or similar, as this is not a moth or a rodent 'nip'!! Other than this the cap is virtually mint. Sweatband is torn in one place, but it looks as if this cap has never been worn, just packed away.
1935 Munich Octoberfest Daybadge.
Uncommon pinback tin daybadge issued by the DAF celebrating the 1935 Munich Octoberfest. Pleasing design featuring a brewer's dray and the DAF symbol with all of it's bronzed finish. Intact pin to reverse.
WW2 Japanese 7.7mm, Type 99 ' Last Ditch ' Rifle
DEACTIVATED Japanese ' Last Ditch ' or ' Substitute ' 7.7mm , Type 99 rifle. This example was manufactured at the Tokyo Juki Kogyo Arsenal as part of the 27th series in approx. late 1944. Last Ditch weapons were built in an attempt to simplify and speed up production and this example features; receiver marked only with chrysanthemum, welded and pinned front band, fixed peep sight, no cleaning rod, wood buttplate and simplified cocking handle. This example is in excellent condition with clear manufacturer's marks. An attempt has been made to deface the chrysanthemum, typical of surrendered weapons, with the rest of the metalwork in good condition and demonstrating clear machining marks again typical of last ditch weapons. An opportunity to acquire an interesting variation of the Arisaka family of rifles. AVAILABLE WITHIN THE UK ONLY.
Commando SBS shoulder title.
A hugely scarce title 'COMMANDO S.B.S.', Special Boat Squadron shoulder title. Embroidered red on blue with a rough woven cotton backing and clearly having been removed from a uniform. Some moth damage which does not greatly detract. The SBS were formed from the Army Commandos, initially being formed as the Folboat Section, No.8 Commando. Two squadrons of the SBS were formed in 1942 with No2 Squadron going on to be amalgamated with COPPS.
S84/98 Bayonet and frog.
Excellent condition Third Reich S84/98 bayonet for the K98 rifle.Wooden gripped, manufacturer marked cqh (Clemen &Jung) and 1944 dated. Inspection marks to most major components. Clean scabbard marked 'cof' (Eickhorn) with a 1942 dated frog manufacturer marked 'gfg' (Carl Hepting & Co.) .Excellent clean condition.