Notifications
Clear all

Value of Ammo Boots?

14 Posts
6 Users
0 Reactions
936 Views
McVickers
(@mcvickers)
Posts: 4652
Famed Member
Topic starter
 

How much would a good pair of genuine war dated ammo boots cost/be valued at?
How much would an clean and tidy unissued pair with clear stamping/markings be worth?


A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.

 
Posted : 19/02/2011 6:57 pm
 Yith
(@yith)
Posts: 11230
Illustrious Member
 

Size?


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 8:40 pm
McVickers
(@mcvickers)
Posts: 4652
Famed Member
Topic starter
 

Size 7.

(But surely size is irrelevant as it would be a shame to use an unissued pair, surely? They've lasted over 65 years without someone sticking their feet in 'em, creasing them up and wearing down their surfaces, it's be a shame for someone to spoil a pair that have been kept so immaculate/museum-piece, just to be another nameless re-enactor/airsofter, no?)


A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.

 
Posted : 19/02/2011 8:53 pm
 Yith
(@yith)
Posts: 11230
Illustrious Member
 

People do wear original dated boots, obviously not for battling in though!... Size 7 certainly moves them more into the collectors market. Though there are some ladies who'd definitely consider wearing them for ATS.

I think I'd be looking somewhere in the region of £50 to £100. Where in that region, I couldn't say!


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 9:13 pm
McVickers
(@mcvickers)
Posts: 4652
Famed Member
Topic starter
 

People do wear original dated boots, obviously not for battling in though!...

Oh yes, I've seem them, and I defiantly would love to have a proper pair for 'show' events. I'd have to find some that were used as I'd hate myself if I spoiled an unissued pair.
Not a hope in hell of getting a dated pair for my size feet anyways (even repros' don't go above 12 :cry: )*.

I think I'd be looking somewhere in the region of £50 to £100. Where in that region, I couldn't say!

Really? :(
Grade 1 used DMS boots go for £40-£110... :cry:

Still good news anyway, as any value is a profit for me now owning them!

* I've always been using a cut down pair of Boots, Cardboard, Horrible in my size. Anklets hide the nastiness! :wink:


A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.

 
Posted : 19/02/2011 9:17 pm
dadio
(@dadio)
Posts: 3523
Famed Member
 

im afraid i use a verry used pair of 43 dated boots,strangly when i got them they had never had studs in them and certainly were not parade boots judging by their condition.got to stress these wernt colectors pieces ,even had brownish areas sugesting they had once been brown then polished black.


armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well





 
Posted : 20/02/2011 9:42 am
McVickers
(@mcvickers)
Posts: 4652
Famed Member
Topic starter
 

im afraid i use a verry used pair of 43 dated boots,

Oh, I've no beef with those who use dated gear, all of my webbing is period/none repro'. I'd happily use a used pair of dated/period ammo boots if they were to come my way in my size :good:
Unissued webbing is a different ball game in my eyes, as there's loads of it about, but unissed ammo boots are something of a rare bird.


A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.

 
Posted : 20/02/2011 12:58 pm
fremsley
(@fremsley)
Posts: 809
Prominent Member
 

Dadio mate - do you think they may have been officer's boots - given the brownness and lack of studs?


I'm a hero with coward's legs.

 
Posted : 20/02/2011 1:51 pm
dadio
(@dadio)
Posts: 3523
Famed Member
 

entirely possible they were officers boots but they'v been re-polished in black at some piont and heavily used .its the heavily used and no studs that puzzled me?but im a little off topic now.


armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well





 
Posted : 20/02/2011 2:38 pm
Hänschen klein
(@hanschen-klein)
Posts: 3604
Famed Member
 

Having been there and done that I may be able to shed some light on the matter of the studless boots.

In my younger years in a Land far far away we used to strut around in fantastic polished bulled boots just before we nicked someone for something or other with our famous Red Caps on :whistle: . Our boots bulled to perfection many of the lads used to wear ammo boots without studs,They said because they were more ridged held the polish better but I guess they were quite an effective weapon in the Private Privates parts :giggle: we also used to raid stores for the Guards boots which were thrown out and re use them this is probably where studless ones came from. It was only when I changed profession in 1990 that i got rid of my own WW2 ammo boots which were used for cerimonial duties. It just goes to show you that we as a country can make boots but fail at making cars. Best leave that to the Germans Hey.
TTFN






 
Posted : 20/02/2011 2:58 pm
 stof
(@stof)
Posts: 865
Prominent Member
 

I use a pair 1943 dated boots at reenactment events ,a tad too scarce to risk them at airsoft,and I am a size 7 ,let me know if you decide to sell them.


 
Posted : 20/02/2011 3:25 pm
McVickers
(@mcvickers)
Posts: 4652
Famed Member
Topic starter
 

If you want, I can see if the 14s are still for sale.

If you know someone who has size 14 ammo boots (I don't mind if they're post-way dated) that may be for sale, that would be terrific! :good:
Many thanks.


A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.

 
Posted : 20/02/2011 7:11 pm
McVickers
(@mcvickers)
Posts: 4652
Famed Member
Topic starter
 

Wow! This sale looks promising;...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/130489256152


A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.

 
Posted : 27/02/2011 7:15 pm
McVickers
(@mcvickers)
Posts: 4652
Famed Member
Topic starter
 

2 - They are Indian

"George Webb and Son" doesn't sound like a very Indian manufacturer?


A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.

 
Posted : 28/02/2011 9:26 pm
Share: