Wehrmacht

Textbook m40 collar with period factory sewn Kragenlitzen. This collar would be a nice finish to a mannequin with a parka, mantel or camouflage smock without a full tunic underneath.

Excellent pair of matching blue and green MP38 u. MP40 magazine pouches in good used condition. The pouches are an a-typical construction with the closing flaps made out of another fabric than the base material of the pouches. This construction can be linked to maker dkk which would indicate production by Friedrich Offermann u. Söhne, Lederwarenfabrik, Bensberg. The pouches are both matching in cloth, stitching, hardware and leather. The pouches are executed in nice blue and green canvas with brown leather. A nice original MP40 ammunition pouch set in very good condition. If you need just one combat set, this is it!

Original wooden sign to the prisoner of war camp or Kriegsgefangenenarbeitskommando at Gut Hohenlieth which was a large farm in Gutshof near Kiel where mostly Polish and French prisoners of war were housed and put to work. This historical sign would be a great asset for any museum display or further historical research.

Nice US army issue canteen. First world war produced canteen which is unreadable marked, the cup is clearly marked and dated M.A. Co. 1941

US 29th infantry division patch in good condition.

Rare original matching shoulderstraps for a Unteroffizier in a Panzer-Lehr Abteilung.

Nicely used late war Y-straps. The leather on this example is supple and flexible, no cracks, tears or any other significant damages. No markings are found on this example and the Y-strap is in untouched and uncleaned condition. Nice used condition which would fit nicely on a Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS combat mannequin!

Beautiful M35 single decal Kriegsmarine helmet marked SE64 indicating production by Sachsichse Emaillierwerke. The helmet retains its factory applied textured paint and Kriegsmarine decal. The helmet is externally and internally overpainted with black paint with the decal being neatly masked and painted around.  The helmet retains its factory installed liner. Excellent original Kriegsmarine helmet in a uncommon period black overpaint.

Original deathcard to Harmanus Willibrordus Timmer, married to Annie W. Witte ( a typical name in Den Burg, Texel ) was killed in action during the infamous Georgian uprising of the island Texel. The Georgian ‘volunteers’ stationed a coastal battery on the Island, north of the Netherlands defending the North Sea.

Shortly after midnight on the night of 5–6 April 1945, the Georgians rose up and gained control of nearly the entire island. Approximately two hundred German soldiers were killed in the initial uprising, in their quarters or while standing guard, walking the roads of the island in groups or individually that night and the following day. Members of the Dutch resistance participated and assisted the Georgians. However, the rebellion hinged on an expected Allied landing which did not occur. Furthermore, the Georgians failed to secure the naval batteries on the southern and northern coasts of the island; the crews of these artillery installations were the only Germans still alive on the island.

A counterattack was ordered and the intact artillery batteries on the island began firing at sites where rebels were suspected to be. Approximately 2,000 riflemen of the 163rd Marine-Schützenregiment  were deployed from the Dutch mainland. Over the next five weeks they re-took the island; fighting was particularly heavy in the northern part of the island at Eierland and around the lighthouse. The German troops then combed the length of the island for any remaining Georgian soldiers, while the Dutch inhabitants sought to hide them. The German commander of the 882nd battalion, Major Klaus Breitner, stated long after the war that the uprising was “treachery, nothing else;” the captured mutineers were ordered to dig their own graves, remove their German uniforms, and be executed.

During the rebellion, 565 Georgians, at least 812 Germans, and 120 residents of Texel were killed. The destruction was enormous; dozens of farms went up in flames, with damage later estimated at ten million guilders (US$3.77 million). The bloodshed lasted beyond the German capitulation in the Netherlands and Denmark on 5 May 1945 and even beyond Germany’s general surrender on 8 May 1945. The fighting continued until Canadian troops arrived 20 May 1945 to enforce the German surrender, and disarmed the remaining German troops.

Textbook Heer/Waffen-SS privately tailored Breeches in Gaberdine material. Easily matched to a Gaberdine officers tunic!