SOLD ITEMS

Rare wartime barrel changing mitt for the MG34 and MG42. When firing the MG34 and MG42 continuously the German soldiers where presented with a harsh and difficult task: changing the barrel. The MG34 and MG42 where both made with a quick-change barrel and to help in the changing of the barrel these gloves where invented and issued. These gloves where issued with the accessories of the MG34 and MG42. It is simply used by placing the hand under the strap and using the pad to cover your hand when you grab the hot, sometimes even glowing barrel. The barrel is then placed in the Laufschützer to cool down and a cool new barrel is inserted. According to regulations, the barrel had to be changed after 150 rounds fired continuously. Hard to find item!

Nice original tabbed aluminum Reichsarbeitsdienst belt buckle marked Sieper & Söhne 1936. The buckle comes with the added leather cloth protector on the back.

Rare pre war belt buckle with the typical design that is associated with R. Fischer, Nixdorf. The lower talons lack the individual feathers in combination with the sharp eye indicate this. The buckle is denazified by ways of hammering out the swastika. It is however still in presentable condition and for sure rare enough to fit in any buckle collection in this condition.

Mint Dienstglas buttoning tab or Knopflasche maker marked and dated E. Leitz 1939. These would be perfect to match to a 1939 dated E. Leitz Dienstglas and would be impossible to find in this condition as a spare.

Stunning Panzer or Panzerjäger officers visor in very good near mint condition. The visor retains its bright pink wool piping with its originally attached insignia. The wool is in very good condition with 99% of its fluff with minimal surface moth grazing. The cap is a good size 58 which would fit most if not all mannequins. The cap is a stunning and textbook example that would be very hard to upgrade.

Stunning grouping consisting of a named and unit ID’ed sidecap with factory applied light green soutache and numbered shoulderstraps. The sidecap or Schiffchen is a very nice and textbook example with factory applied green soutache and factory hand sewn insignia. The cap is a nice large size, probably a 58. Inside the cap sits a period sewn ID tag to Jäger Petrowitsch Gebirgsjäger Regiment 138. The cap was found together with a set of cyphered m36 pattern shoulderstraps. The straps are textbook pre war green wool piped examples in near mint condition. The shoulderstraps are nicely cyphered to Gebirgsjäger Regiment 138  which is a regiment which fought in Poland in 1939 and later went on to fight in Norway, Finland and near Leningrad. The set is in very good, near mint condition and would be a prime ensemble in any Gebirgsjäger collection.

Typical original MG13 barrel carrier with its original cleaning rods and carrying sling in very good condition.

Textbook late war equipment belt in good used condition. Roughly a size 95.

A leather pouch for the K98 grenade launcher with its original sling. Nicely marked dkk 42 indicating production by Friedrich Offermann u. Söhne, Lederwarenfabrik, Bensberg. 

A very nice so called Crank Catch Heer belt buckle by Hermann Aurich. The buckle still retains up to 95% of its original late war bleu or Graublau paint. One of the rarest buckles to find!

A very nice album with over 170 clear pictures. The album begins with a period in the Deutsche Arbeitsdienst. Later he was drafter in the Luftwaffe where he must have served a medical function. Schulz poses near the castle in Falaise and the church in Caen. There are countless other pictures of towns and villages that look like Normandy to me. There is a set of pictures of the burial of Sanitäter Jakob Fink, killed in action 17.6.1944 at Le Desert which is next to St. Lo in Normandy. The album would be a great base for further research!

Rare green K98 bayonet frog variant with the breadbag material closing strap. Rare variant in very good used condition.

Rare Gebirgsjäger wool trousers in Steingrau or stone grey colour. The trousers retain all factory sewn buttons, tapes and markings. Nicely maker marked and dated M40. Perfect example in stone mint condition that’s impossible to upgrade!

Textbook large sized original coastal artillery or Küstenartillerie field blouse. The garment is in very good condition with most of the nap in the wool remaining. The garment comes with original though in my opinion restored insignia. The garment is a very big size that would fit most if not all mannequins.

Matching K98 bayonet marker marked and dated Rich. A. Herder 1938. Beautiful unsharpened and untouched blade in very good condition!

Nice original and matching K98 bayonet maker marked and dated Gebr. Heller 1940. Scarce maker bayonet in untouched and unsharpened condition!

Textbook M42 helmet marked ET66 indicating production by Eisenhuttenwerke Thale. The helmet is a typical helmet as issued to Heer, Kriegsmarine and Waffen-SS units from 1943 onwards. The helmet retains its factory installed spliced liner named Walter with its original RBNR chinstrap. The helmet is a great untouched example with most of its factory paint remaining in good used condition.

Scarce early Luftwaffe tropical k98 bayonet frog. The frog is in very good used condition. Textbook construction and very hard to upgrade!

Nice untouched and matching K98 bayonet maker marked and dated Clemen & Jung 1938. The bayonet comes with its originally attached pre war frog and is in good used condition.

Rare Heer belt buckle maker marked and dated Gebr. Albert 1936. The tab is nicely unit marked 4./Pz.R.3 indicating 4. Kompanie Panzer Regiment 3 which fought the whole war until it was destroyed in Normandy. The buckle is denazified; but it’s rare to find it with the Panzer Regiment unit markings!