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.
2nd Pattern Fairburn-Sykes Fighting Knife .
An excellent example of the 2nd Pattern Fairburn-Sykes fighting knife. Drawn blade with needle point with the 'F-S Fighting Knife' etch to one side and the 'Wilkinson Sword Co. Ltd' to the other. Blade in clean, bright condition with some very minor marks. Grip in clean condition with the majority of it's blued finish. Scabbard is in similarly clean condition but has a slightly tatty elastic retainer and has had the tabs cleanly removed. However, this knife is in better than average condition.
1943 SS Diary.
1943 SS Diary and Yearbook, unused. Uncommon example packed with information from the organisation and raison d'etre for the SS to colourful charts depicting the insignia of all arms of the German forces. The frontispiece is a picture of Hitler with the endpapers taken up by a similar image of Himmler. The unused diary is filled with additional dates of significance in the National Socialist calender. Excellent, clean condition.
WW2 Australian Owen Machine Carbine bayonet.
A good clean example of the ' Bayonet, Owen Machine Carbine, MkI. Manufactured by the Orange Arsenal in March 1944 it is clearly to that effect on the ricasso along with Australian acceptance marks. Both grips are clearly marked as is the scabbard and comes mounted in a Canadian manufactured frog. In excellent clean condition.
WW2 Airborne Division printed formation signs.
Facing pair of printed Airborne Division formation signs featuring the well known image of Bellerophon astride a Pegasus. Although not a perfectly matched pair they were both removed from the same uniform by the original owner and both feature the same folding and stitching. In excellent condition.
Japanese 8mm Type 94 semi-auto pistol.
Uncommon DEACTIVATED 8mm Type 94 semi-auto pistol. Marked to one side of the frame 'TYPE 94', and serialled and dated December 1936 to the other. Manufactured at the Kokubunji factory of Chuo Kogyo and marked accordingly. Designed by Nambu to replace the Type 14 with an emphasis on lightness and safety, the Type 94 was built throughout the war. This example is in good condition with some minor pitting and is accompanied by the equally uncommon holster and shoulder strap. Pigskin holster is in good supple condition and has a replacement magazine. Shoulder strap has loops to accomodate extra rounds . An opportunity to acquire an uncommon pistol and holster combination. AVAILABLE WITHIN UK ONLY
R.A.D. Cufflinks.
Unusual silver washed brass and enamel cufflinks with the emblem of the RAD, the Reichsarbeitdienst or Labour Service. Silvered finish rubbed to high points and minor enamel damage to one link otherwise in good condition. Uncommon items.
LARGER SIZE Reichskreigs Flag. Navy marked. Great
As you can see from the pictures this is a BIG flag! Measures 2 metres x 3.35 metres. (6'6"x 11'), but is in excellent condition and would look fantastic as a wall drape or table cover. All the colours are very bright and not faded. There are only a few small moth holes. Marked with the size and typle on the canvas hem, along with the navy stamp of an eagle and swastika over the letter 'M'. This would have been flown over a naval administration building, or from a fairly large ship!!! Great looking flag and difficult to find in good condition. Rope lanyard present and perfect.
AP or No.8 Switch booby trap device.
Produced by M.D.1 or ' Winston Churchill's Toyshop ' the AP Switch was produced in spring 1940 as a booby trap device centred around the standard .303 round. Soon modified the device was designed to be buried in the ground whereupon a footfall would set it off firing the round through the foot or any other part of the target's anatomy - it was soon christened the ' debollocker' ! This scarce example is complete, including the umbrella spring that triggers the device and the spring, spindle and striker. Faintly stencilled M.D.1 A99 in yellow to the outside spike and complete with an INERT cartridge. The cartridge has been drilled to enable deactivation because of the impossibility of removing the projectile. The projectile has suffered some delamination because of water ingress and there is some minor loss of finish to small areas of the spike but all together an excellent example of an uncommon booby trap used by many organisations involved in unconventional warfare.
5 Commando brass shoulder title.
Good wartime 5 Commando shoulder title in brass. Cast with integral loops with the characteristic ' 5 ' typical of these titles. The brass 5 Commando shoulder title was produced during their time in the Far East and was in wear from late 1944 and was in widespread use in 1945 during their operations against the Japanese.
Bullion Chindit arm badge.
Good, worn, bullion embroidered example of the badge worn by the 77th Indian Brigade and later the 3rd Indian Division - The Chindits. Formed by Orde Wingate in 1942 and fought extensively throughout Burma, often behind Japanese lines. The name Chindits is a corruption of the word ' Chinthe ' which is the lion-headed pagoda guardian seen throughout Burma and represented by the patch. Classic, worn example, embroidered on coarse cloth,with some minor fraying. MR/C05