LUFTWAFFE TECHNICAL SPECIALIST SLEEVE BADGE WITH GILT WIRE BORDER.

A standard Luftwaffe technicians sleeve badge, but much better quality and with tightly stitched gilt wire around the edge. Luftwaffe grey wool background with white detail to the wreath etc. Gold wire border is awarded for length of service or another award. Makes it a much rarer ‘common’ badge.  read more

Code: 8942

COLLECTION ‘POT-PORRI’ OF OVER 50 ITEMS.

You take your pick here and hopefully put some of these items to good use. This is part of a collection purchased in Somerset and like all collectors (me included!), we have a ‘useful box’ or drawer, where we put all the odds and sods. This is the contents of such a box. A huge mixture of items, most war-time, but a few more modern badges etc. I am not going to list everything, study the pictur...  read more

Code: 8940

SET OF ORIGINAL WW2 MEDALS IN FAMILY TIN BOX.

I have pictured the box and contents exactly how I received it. An old tin money box that contained 6 medals, 3 ribbon bars, the family address and a pressed 4 leaf clover! I have just left them as I found them. 2 Defence medals, 2 39/45 War medals, a France and Germany star and an Africa Star. Label is from an address in Huntingdonshire.  read more

Code: 8939

WW2 British 76 Division marked Helmet.

Standard MkII helmet marked to one side with a red ' Norfolk Wherry ' the sign of the 76th Infantry Division. Partial manufacturer's stamping to rim fitted with a MkI, 1939 dated 6 3/4 liner by Helmets Ltd. Helmet has had two coats of paint with the final layer being a thick, hand applied finish. Black square with red wherry to one side which has the classic liner mark left when helmets were st...  read more

Code: 8937

WW1 Machine Gun Corps Officer's OSD cap badge.

A good scarce die stamped bronze example. Three loops to the reverse.  read more

Code: 8935

WW1 R.F.C. Mk.V Aviator's Watch.

30 Hour, non-luminous Mk.V Aviator's watch as issued to the R.F.C. Swiss, 15 jewel movement by Electa contained in a white metal case with hinged movement cover and broad arrow ' A ' marked outer case. Originally a time piece that was mounted on a holder fixed to the aircraft 's instrument panel. In working order and keeping good time. Case patinated overall with bright interior, good, clean ex...  read more

Code: 8934

German 20 mm MK151/20 APT Cannon Round

WW2 German 20 mm MK151/20 (20x82) APT Armour Piercing Tracer cannon rounds. Lacquered steel, 1943 dated cases with black painted AP projectile with band to tip. Residual stencilling and clear stamping above steel driving band.
INERT - Priced individually.  read more

Code: 8932

Hindenburg Cross for Widows and Parents.

An original Hindenburg Cross for Widows and Parents with correct ribbon. Magnetic example maker marked to reverse.The Hindenburg Cross was established by Field Marshal Paul von
Hindenburg, President of the Third Reich, in 1934,
and was awarded to the participants of the WW1 or their surviving relatives. Of the 8 million + awarded the cross for widows and parents represented unde...  read more

Code: 8931

British A.C.Delay Mk I.

Scarce British Mk1 A.C. Delay for use with the Limpet mine. This version differs from the MkIA in having a smaller diameter body which accepts smaller acetone ampoules.This version was replaced by the MkIA but operated in exactly the same fashion.Acetone ampoules containing differing strengths of acetone were inserted into the A.C. Delay and crushed, eating through a celluloid washer which reta...  read more

Code: 8930

WW1 Bavarian Pickelhaube Plate.

Die stamped brass Pickelhaube plate worn by Bavarian other ranks. Heavily patinated with one fixing pin missing from the reverse.  read more

Code: 8929