What's your newest militaria III

It's not an M1A1, It's a Saginaw M1 that has been arsenal refurbished in a US army workshop behind the front, most probably in Belgium. the previous owner put on a repro folding stock and threw away theoriginal stock, that's why I got iut very very cheap! I will buy an original stock one of these days.

 

Great pics! Its a nice looking one. I own a 1943 Underwood and i like this handy rifle the more than it is a very accurate shooter. How about yours?

 

It's quite good till 50 meters. i'm waiting for the papers for an 1943 Underwood that was not arsenal rebuilt, all the original early parts are still there: push type safety, large mag release button, type 1 barrel band, flip sight etc. etc.etc.

I also have an Inland.

 

Hope you get your Underwood! But believe me, buy a Type II Barrel band, it makes the rifle a bit more accurate. My Underwood is at 60 mm diameter with 5 rounds at 100m. So they can be really good. The Inland with dark or lighter woodset?

 

I will get the Underwood for sure, it's paid for, I'm just waiting foir my "port d'arme" = what you would call the "WBK". Do you also have to register every new gun you buy on the WBK, or can you just buy a gun once you have the WBK?

 

That's a fine-looking collection you have there, Skylinedrive !

 

No, that would be to easy for our bureaucrats. I have to register any single waepon. Only thing is that i can buy a rifle, not semi auto and singleshot pistols on the yellow WBK before i have to register them. On the green WBK i can buy, but i have to get a permission first.

 

Same over here, first we have to get the paperwork, then we can take the gun home. The only big advantage we have is that we can own an unlimited number of full auto guns, on a collectors permit. We're not allowed to shoot them though.

 

The same as here!

 

More stuff. MG-13 mags in cans,MG-13 mags in carriers with straps, leather ammo pouch with horse maker mark,Berlin 1918 marked ammo pouch,1943 and 1944 British slings,wg43 and euh43 marked drum carriers, repro stuff. Rich A. in Pa.

 

Nice M1 SkylineDrive. Too bad the previous owner disposed of the original stock. I have a 1943 IBM M1 (all original and matched parts, except a 3rd generation sight and bayonet lug), and its a lot of fun to shoot.

What are the details on your Garand?

 

Any info about this RAF brooch would be appreciated. Is this a sweet heart brooch? I was offered to my own mother by an RAF pilot statione din Holland after the war. The man was in love with her, but she maried my dad instead. I didn't even know she had kep this brooch as a souvenir but last week she called me and said she had something for my collection.

 

I'd say that's a 'sweetheart' brooch and a very nicely-made one at that, Skipper.

There was a real craze for these, especially in the latter part of WWII. My mother for many years had a Royal Armoured Corps one from my father.

 

I was hoping you'd drop in Martin. It has the George VI crown so it's WWII area made, and I'm wondering whether this is silver although it has no markings. i do'nt know if the little stones (they don't show nice on the scan) are zirconinion, glass or better) . My mum says she's been offered this in the early 1950s.

 

I just got this in the post



dated 1944

the label reads

Caps, Garrison OD
Durable Uniform Co
P.O. No.7477
Dated Nov 29 1944
Phila Q.M Depot


got it for bugger all which wa

 

I wouldn't make a downpayment on the new Porsche just yet, Skipper !

I'd love to say they're diamonds but I'm fairly certain that they are Marcasite, very popular low-cost jewellery in the 1940s/50s. Marcasite is in fact made from iron pyrites, AKA 'fool's gold'. To be silver, it would have to be 'hallmarked'.

Joking aside, the piece is no less nicer for this : this was a time of great austerity when average people could hardly afford to buy a gold wedding ring.....IMPO yours is a better-than-average sweetheart brooch and at the time, would not have been a 'cheap & cheerful' item.

 

That's more than good enough for me Martin. Marcasite looks just as good. This one comes from my mother and she had been keeping it in abox for over 60 years without ever telling me .

This was quite a nice surprise, just as good as my dad's army glasses or my grandpa's collcetion or WW2 pins. (he volunteered in a hospital laundry and has found pins from all belligerents in his machines. He never mentionned this but in 2008 he offered me the whole box just days behore he died and I was amazed to find about 50 pins, some quite rare like variants of enamel NSB triangular pins and many Dutch patriot pins from the Maquis.

 

Got this set mainly due to the darker medal ( Big lion ) with two clasps. They both are actually from the 1918 period of the Finnish Civil war, and the clasps tell where the person fought for "the Whites". This lower clasp is covering the area where I was born and live now, and it is in great shape,too!

 

Cool medals, so in way these are Independence commemoratives?

 

Yes, indeed. Among the young nation´s first medals. They also had distinct medals for conquering certain big cities, my favourite is this "medal for victory in Kuopio". This one is just an example, I haven´t got one,yet...