World War Two Selection
This is where you'll find an interesting collection of Second World War Militaria. New items are added all the time so be sure to check back for the latest finds! Enquiries about anything always welcome. Offers/More pictures just ask.
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Original WW2 HITLER YOUTH HJ Knife or Dagger This Knife is a great original example. The hilt is solid steel having a nickel-plated surface. The grip plates are the earlier black chequered Bakelite in great condition. The Hitler Youth insignia is very good, with a tiny chip to the diamond point, nice enamel to the red, white, gold and black swastika. These grip plates are retained by nickel rivets having dressed heads on the obverse. A good solid example, one of the later models with no motto. Stamped SOLINGEN. This also comes with scabbard. Please ask for more pictures. Thank you
£695.00
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WW2 Home Front WHISTLE 1938
Original ww2 A.R.P. Issue whistle J. HUDSON & Co BARR ST. HOCKLEY BIRMINGHAM 1938 Comes complete with chain and button hole hook
£28.50
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Large Illustration of Hitler Signed by Anti-Nazi Artist A.G.Ton Smits WW2 framed |
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Large 3 Inch Shell Case with Parachute ----------------SOLD----------------
Large 3 Inch Shell Case with Parachute & Webbing Fragments stuffed inside.
This is a 3 Inch 74mm shell casing found with many interesting parachute and webbing fragments stuffed inside it. Including a complete small parachute/canopy possibly for a flare or guide chute. Interesting lot, no markings can be found on the shell casing, it stands 18cm high.
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The Evening News 'germany Surrenders 1945 News Paper An original newspaper Dated Monday, May 7th 1945. GERMANY SURRENDERS! Victory News Has some wear, nice historic item. Will be sent folded into 4 as was found. £19.95
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German EK 2nd Class Schinkle Medal A German Iron Cross 2nd Class Schinkle Medal, rare original item taken from the battlefield as a trophy by a good friends grandfather. has battle damage to ribbon, small paint loss as pictured, please ask for more images if required. £245.00
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Original tin A.R.P WARDEN Sign CITY OF WESTMINSTER |
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70 x Inert Rifle rounds from Estate collection --------------SOLD-----------------
A collection of 70 x inert rifle rounds, many complete from an Estate lot of previous collector. Many different manufacturers and years, WW2 and before/after. Un-researched lot perfect for enthusiasts and collectors alike (see also handgun bullet collection). More pictures on request. |
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Small trench art penknife made with a 1943 Farthing coin A small trench art penknife made with a genuine 1943 Farthing coin set into the handle. when extended measures 9.5cm. Great little item for display £28.00
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WW2 USAF Bomber crashed relic BOMB RELEASE RACK |
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Russian WW2 MOSIN NAGANT Bolt Action Rifle Details to follow |
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Original WW2 NAAFI Parcel Sign on Board Malaya Korea Japan Navy Army Air Force |
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WW2 Trench Art letter Opener Belarus -----------------SOLD----------------
A skillfull work of German Trench Art from Belarus Dated 1942
Letter opener is in great solid condition made from bi-metal copper shell shrapnel, the blade alone is 14.5cm and engraved with ERINNERUNG POLOZK 1942 (In memory Polotsk 1942). The handle is inlaid with bi-colour copper diagonal strips. An overall length of 21.7cm. Very rare to find a trench art item from this province during the Second World War. This was purchased many years ago from an antique shop in Leipzig, it came with 2 photographs in the box and these have been kept with it and shall be included in the sale. The photos are original and depict quite sombre scenes showing deceased bodies in the snow. One photo shows German soldiers looking at a human skull and remains with a tank that looks to be out of action in the background.
POLOZK (also known as Polatsk and Polotsk) is a historical city in Belarus, situated on the Dvina River. It is the center of the Polotsk District in Vitsebsk Voblast. Polotsk came under occupation by Nazi Germany on 16 July 1941 until 4 July 1944. In the small Belarusian town of Polotsk, various memorials commemorate the approximately 8,000 Jews who were murdered there in 1941/1942 by the Germans and their accomplices. Belarus lost a quarter of its pre-war population in the Second World War, including practically all its intellectual elite. About 9,200 villages and 1,200,000 houses were destroyed. The major towns of Minsk and Vitebsk lost over 80% of their buildings and city infrastructure.
A unique lot with an historic story.
(Other items in the background are not included in this sale)
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Original WW2 RAF Silk Escape Map A/B, 1943 FRAMED DISPLAY Pilot Air Crew Evasion COLLECTION ONLY FROM HERTFORDSHIRE WW2 Double sided RAF Silk Escape Map A/B, dated 1943
Professionally displayed in a large glass fronted box frame with informative presentation label below artifact.
Ideal for museum, collector, ready to hang.
Frame measures 76cm x 101cm x 3.3cm. Hanging cups fixed into the top of rear board. The Visible map measures 54 x 62cm
This item is for collection only from Hitchin, Hertfordshire
The object caption label states the following:
A SECOND WORLD WAR AIR CREW SILK ESCAPE MAP OF THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN TERRITORIES 1943
SIDE 1, SHEET A – FRANCE WITH PYRENEES AREA, BELGIUM, HOLLAND SIDE 2, SHEET B – SPAIN, GERMAN AND SWISS FRONTIER
During World War II, pilots and their crew took cloth maps on missions over enemy territory, hidden in the hollow sole of a boot or sewn into the uniform. These invaluable maps were used to help find their way back in case they were shot down behind enemy lines.
Starting in 1941 an increasing number of British airmen found themselves the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, in Prisoner of War camps. The authorities to the Crown were casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape. Now obviously, one of the most-helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map. Paper maps had some real drawbacks, they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush.
WW2 British silk escape maps were the creation of Clayton Hutton, an eccentric MI-9 British Army Officer who was the genius behind so many WW2 escape and evasion aids which are still in use today. Printing escape maps on silk, they are durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever. At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort.
By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the UK licensee for the popular American board game Monopoly. As it happened, games and pastimes was a category of item qualified for insertion into CARE packages, dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war.
Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany, Italy, and France or wherever Allied POW camps were located. When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece.
As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add:
1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass 2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together
3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!
British and American air crews were advised on how to identify a ‘rigged’ Monopoly set, a tiny red dot, cleverly designed to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square.
Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets. £300.00
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Baby Infants Gas Mask Complete in Crate with Instructions ----------------SOLD------------------- |
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A German WW2 Russian Front Letter Opener in Display Case 'LUGA' 1943 ----------------SOLD----------- |
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WW2 Original N.A.A.F.I. Poster on Board -------------SOLD----------------- |
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WW2 VICTORY Calendar Diary 1942 Home Front Charity Grand Orange Lodge Scotland -----------SOLD------------ |
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The Boys .55 Anti-Tank Rifle Clip with 5 Cartridges ------------SOLD-----------------
5 x Original spent cartridges on Stripper Clip
The .55 caliber rifle was born in 1937 of one Capt. Henry C. Boys. Boys was the Assistant Superintendent of Design at the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, England. The gun was originally supposed to be called the “Stanchion,” but Boys died a few days before the weapon was approved for service, so they named it after him. |
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German Afrika Korps Anti Aircraft Flak Ammo box, Magazines & Inerts rounds ----------------SOLD------------- |
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German 96 Infantry Division Pz.Jg.Abt196 Tank Busters Cased Letter Opener ---------------SOLD-------------- |
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