M2 Paratrooper 'pocket' knife. In working order. £5 along with an original Screaming Eagle patch.
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
A second tanaka luger :L
M2 Paratrooper 'pocket' knife. In working order. £5
Aren't they illegal?
Aren't they illegal?
Partypooper
Parapooper?
No the WPG repros don't flick all the way...anyway they're probably about as illegal as the 1918 Trench Knife.
http://onlinemilitaria.net/shopexd.asp?id=271&bc=no
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
Indeed, "in working order" made me think it was, well... in working order.
Well some of the flick half way, some fold. This one flicks half way. Not sure how that makes a difference but apparently it does.
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
a Mobile phone at last
OD vest, £2.00 from a cheap clothes shop in town. Who needs SOF! (if it survivves the first wash I might pop back and buy a spare)
I do. No british WW2-stuff in Finland markets
Just bought from previosly mentioned cost a fortune:
-Dennison smock (first pattern)
-Denim trousers
-Toggle rope
Why do you always carry that umbrella?
-Bad memory. Never could remember the password. Knew no Jerry would carry one. Had to prove I was an Englishman, you see.
A bridge too far
From W&P today:
1942 dated large-scale WD voltmeter in near mint condition - priced up at £35, but got it for £12!
Homefront cotton canteen harness - £1
A small bagfull of SMLE No.4 tinwear - £21.50 (Thanks for the heads-up cdfw!)
4x British webbing linesman plier holsters/frogs - £0.50p each
Another cloth Vickers ammo belt - £5!
A mint unissued (still with stores label attached) field telephone buzzer unit - £5
A cotton slip-bag for one of my 'officers' camp beds' - £1
Burton tailored private purchace No.2 uniform jacket - in need of some re-stitching as a seam has opened - £2!
Random pouch made from 37patt webbing material, genuine British military item - for a hand saw? - £1
Non-WW2:
Pace ST55 Soldering Iron (hundreds of pounds new) ex-British army some used once or twice, others used not at all - "surplus to requirements" - £20!!!!
Bargain of the day, goes to my genuine WS38 harness primary hook (looks like this, but mines a bit cleaner):
For £1!!!! Sure it's a small bit of webbing, but they're like gold-dust!
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
well vrs clone,its future looks grim as i'v got plans for it and a dboys k98 yet to be purchased.
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
stop it
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
2 folding wooden chairs a-la WWII style, saw them in the charity shop on the way to work this morning.
A nice late war 'Large head' zeltbahn. Made from many different prints with a range of colours. It has the typical late war 'wings' and a very high quality field/depot repair.
The bulk is the larger print version of splinter A.
Needs some buttons but not short of those.
aka Stigroadie
AFRA
better by design
"Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. "
Picked up a nice garrison cap. And the slippery slope towards non combat equipment starts.
A toggle rope, and finally a decent coloured scrim scarf.