Equipment

Rare Flemish NSKK and Zwarte Brigade sleeve shield in excellent unissued condition. These shields depict a Wolfsangel stitched onto its cardboard backed yellow cloth. These were worn on the sleeves for Belgian NSKK volunteers, Fabriekswacht, Dietsche Militie or the Zwarte Brigade. Hard to find example in unissued condition!

Rare first pattern tropical Y-straps in good condition. The Y-straps are probably one of the rarest variants to acquire. This is a first pattern set of Y-straps with full webbing O-ring cover. The straps retain all of their original green hardware which seems to be typical and exclusive to these Y-straps. The Y-straps are made of typical olive coloured webbing and come with their original green webbing backstrap. A rare opportunity to acquire a true first pattern DAK or Afrikakorps Y-strap in excellent condition!

Complete mapcase with contents. It seems the original owner was taken prisoner on the western front. He studied the English language and his notebooks are inside. The name of the owner was Rudi Nickel and his POW number was 705370. He took note of the other POW’s. He most probably served some sort of role in the POW camp. He noted the Erkennungsmarken in his camp. Some noted units are Schützen Ausbildungs Bataillon 5, Infanterie Regiment 78, 37, 463, 179, 107, 367, 483, 590, 194, 190, 109, 195, 163 and 444.

Very nice pre war brown leather mapcase dated 1937 in very good condition. The mapcase is nicely unit marked St./J.R. 102 II. Very nice example!

Infanterie Regiment 102 took part in the Belgian and French 1940 campaign. It then was sent on the eastern front until the end of the war. In 1942 the unit was renamed to Grenadier Regiment 102 and served under the 24. and later 122. Infanterie Division.

Textbook late war manufactured M31 pattern breadbag strap in excellent, most likely unissued condition. The breadbag strap is nicely and clearly visible marked with RBNr. 0/0367/0024. Typical late war construction and use of materials. Very nice example!

Excellent late war manufactured M31 breadbag in unissued condition. Typical late war construction with a nice mixture of materials. The breadbag is nicely RBNr. marked. Choice late war example!

Rare blue Luftwaffe A-frame in good used condition. The A-frame is a early blue example which was issued with the Luftwaffe blue Y-straps with auxiliary straps and D-rings. Not to be confused with its Heer counterparts. These A-frames were only produced for a short time with the blue Luftwaffe tropical uniforms. After this it was probably reissued for the Heer. This is a hard to find variant in good used condition!

Short pre war strap for the M38 gasmask canister in excellent condition.

Short strap for the M38 gasmask canister in excellent condition with its original leather reinforcement.

Rare spare lenses marked Klarscheibenbüchse (tp) hrr 1942. Gasmask tropical spare lenses or Klarscheiben in unissued condition.

Tropical Y-strap in excellent condition. Textbook example with all the typical details; woven holes in the back strap and a light olive hue in the webbing. Nice example in good used condition!

Beautiful short M38 gasmask canister in spray painted blue grey camouflage. This is a very nice pre war short canister in excellent condition dated 1937. The canister retains spare lenses and a very nice A1B gasmask with a 1937 dated filter. The straps are original to the canister. The short strap looks to be marked. The long rayon strap has a leather end point and has one period repair. On top of the pre war green paint there is a neatly period spray painted blue grey camouflage finish typical for Luftwaffe troops. The blue paint shows the green underneath at some spots and is also covered with large hand applied field grey spots as camouflage. The gasmask is a excellent example retaining up to 90% of its original paint and would be very hard to upgrade!

Tall M38 gasmask canister set in good worn condition. The canister retains its original leather tipped straps and mask. Nice matching set in good worn condition!

Excellent and extremely rare set of side pouches for combat pioneers. The bag features extremely rare and hardly ever encountered dark green coarse webbing straps. These straps have only been encountered at these combat pioneer pouches, mp44 pouches or canteens as far as my knowledge goes. All by all equipment which features this dark green coarse webbing is extremely rare and highly sought after by collectors. The set is in very good condition, it has one small repair and the long back straps has been reattached at some point. One of the two pouches features an ink stamp from postwar Czech storage, but these bags definitely belong to each other. The atypical construction of this pouch with a range of different materials including the dark green coarse webbing makes this set impossible to upgrade. For sure one of the best sets of combat pioneer pouches I have ever offered!

Rare Pioneer tool pouch manufactured out of black pressstoff complete with rare coarse webbing carrying strap. The tool pouch was issued to carry fuze setters, crimp tools and some other small items. The tool is nicely marked dob 1941 which indicates production by a still unidentified manufacturer. The pouch is in worn, untouched condition and is hard to find!