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My Girlfriend was looking at an Anne Frank costume on a website of some type for Halloween and I said "that's to much surely, I disapprove, its insensitive she was just a wee girl", but apparently owning a Knights Cross is weird and she freaked, double standards much? Some people have no historical context in our generation, none at all.

The first clock is by "Junghans", who I believe, are still in business today. Shame that it has been defaced.

A traditional ship's clock, not antique, purchased over 40 years ago at Optik Schröder, Dammtorstraße, Hamburg, complete with key for winding. It also has the "Glasen", bell sounds at each hour and half hour, which can be adjusted to auto or "off". Casing is in brass. Such nautical pieces were quite popular in the 70s locally. The clock is of the make of Hermle, probably little known today. Cost probably as much as a historical piece, at the time about DM 160,00 -which was a lot of money in those days.

Some new entries to the Museum. Prussia: Landwehr-Dienstauszeichnung II.KLasse, (clasp / Schnalle ) blackened iron on woven silk, awarded 1842 - 1913. It was replaced in 1913 by a small gilt or copper coloured bronze medal on a blue ribbon. Prussia: Kartuschkasten for cavalry officers, including Husaren-Regiment 15 also worn by Field Artillery and Train. As worn on the officers bandelier.

That's fine.

Here is a German Kriegsmarine Ship's Clock we have just bought in. Here is a Type W246 used on surface ships and U-Boats.8 day movement.Bakelite mounting with opening glass door face.In working order and the key is present.The eagle and swastika marking has been erased beneath the winding mechanism on the clock face. Maker JUNGHANS.

History and responsible collecting vs scare mongering that collectors must all be skin heads: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17381587 Here we go

Yes I agree Cato, and an Anne Frank costume is pretty sick, to say the least

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders glengarry Gengarry courtesy of Buster The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders wore a a dark blue glengarry with red and white dice and a red toorie. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until amalgamation into the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland in March 2006. The regiment was created under the Childers Reforms in 1881, as the Princess Louise's (Sutherland and Argyll Highlanders), by the amalgamation of the 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot and 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, amended the following year to reverse the order of the “Argyll” and “Sutherland” sub-titles. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was expanded to fifteen battalions during the First World War(1914–1918) and nine during the Second World War (1939–1945). The 1st Battalion served in the 1st Commonwealth Division in the Korean War and gained a high public profile for its role in Aden during 1967. As part of the restructuring of the British Army's infantry in 2006, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were amalgamated with the Royal Scots, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment), the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) and the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) into the seven battalion strong Royal Regiment of Scotland. Following a further round of defence cuts announced in July 2012 the 5th Battalion was reduced to a single public duties company called Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders). Their cap badge consisted of a white metal badge with a circlet inscribed ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND. Within the circlet, voided, the cypher "L" of the late Princess Louise, interlaced and reversed. On the left of the cypher is a boar's head and on the right a cat-a-mountain (wild cat). Above the cypher and overlaying the top of the circlet is the Princess's coronet (a Royal Ducal coronet), all within a wreath of thistles. Below is Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Campbell Mitchell (17 November 1925 – 20 July 1996) he was a British Army officer and politician. He became famous in July 1967 when he led the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the British reoccupation of the Crater district of Aden. At that time, Aden was a British colony and the Crater district had been taken over by nationalist insurgents. Mitchell became widely known as “Mad Mitch”. His reoccupation of the Crater became known as "the Last Battle of the British Empire". The event marked the end of an era in British history and made Mitchell famous.

Thanks Paul

Hi Mick, both these figures are discontinued, but if I come across a second hand one will let you know

N.B.: refering to main title - these helmets are not "Imperial" - there was no such thing as "Imperial German Army" (no Kaiserlich deutsche Armee). The helmets are from the armies of various states, mainly Prussia, which did not have an Emperor, but a King, a correct equivalent would be Royal Prussian, Royal Saxon, Royal Bavarian, etc. "Imperial" applied only to the Navy and the Overseas Colonies - Kaiserliche Marine, etc. Also, the official title of the head of the Prussian state as from 1871 (and before) was König von Preußen - "Deutscher Kaiser" (and not Kaiser von Deutschland) was only a secondary and honorary title. The German "Empire" was simply a confederation of the states which joined and were bound by a convention which each state individually signed. Luxembourg and the Netherlands did not wish to join the confederation, and remained separate, Austria had been excluded after 1866, apart from which, had it's own Emperor.