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Thoughts on this medal please

XCVU, as Fritz said you might have to fiddle with the repro strap fittings to get them to work. Are the lugs clean and free of rust or corrosion?

Thoughts on this please gentlemen

Shortened but looks original

This one looks OK

Photos taken at Tverrdalen in 2006 2./I./KG 26 (Löwengeschwader) 1H+FK WNr.3158 29.05 1940 The aircraft in which Walter Neusüß was

they are pretty rusty.

I think I would leave that one.

Hello, does anyone have an opinion on the authenticity of this Iron Cross? It's a 1st class Rudolf Souval.

An Epping Forest Keeper around 1957, photographed outside the Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge in Chingford.

This is an interesting set of dogtags from a german soldier named Walter (or Walther) Unger. He was born on June 26th 1896 in Saarbrücken. So he would have turned 18 just before the start of ww1. The first dogtag is a model of 1878. It still has the original black and white string and it only shows his name. The second tag is a model 1915. It shows his name, place of birth, date of birth and his unit. It still has most of the original string, but it's not as long as it's supposed to be. It did come with a short piece of thicker string, but I'm not sure if that really belongs with it. Maybe an old repair that came loose again? I think it's really interesting to have these two tags together. The soldier probably kept his old tag when it was supposed to be replaced by the newer one. If anyone has any more information about this person, I'd be glad to hear!

Oh thanks! I didn't know they were issued in pairs. Nice set of tags too!

Older dogtags were always issued in pairs, one large one small, in 1916 this was changed to a larger dog tag in two halfs

Thanks! Yes, I still have quite a bit more stuff I'm going to share (bayonets, some german equipment, inert grenades...). I'm taking a few pictures every now and then and posting them here.

Looks like tarnished silver to me, if it came on that jacket, it should be silvery. By the way, the buttons on that jacket are not qute right, they belong on the fieldgrey tunics, they should be bright aluminium Gilt Tombak, Kriegsmarine Silvered Zink, Heer

Could be Kenny with lots of patina.

Do you have any more photos of militaria you might like to post on the forum?

Thanks! I'll try.

You'll have to file the inside of the strap fitting a bit

Any tips on how to mount a chinstrap on a m16?Got one and it's pretty hard to get the repro strap on it.

original

Found another SMLE action cover, same as the previous one but a little more worn, dated 1914 from the Grenadier Guards.

Here are two british armbands from my collection. One from the derby scheme and one from the volunteer training corps. The VTC one is in worn condition and has two period replacement buttons. The derby scheme one is in perfect unissued condition and still has the original zinc buttons attached with multiple strands of thread, exactly how it would come from the factory. Both are very nicely marked on the back.

Gold or Silver?

Officer's boots, cavalry boots, high quality pre war manufacture by Rowell & Sons, Melton Mowbray

I also have an EK2 with markings on the smaller ring. It's a 1939 version, so I don't know if it would be the same story as the earlier crosses, but it seems like some makers did add additional markings to the smaller ring. I'll post some pictures below. Depending on how it catches the light, the mark on the smaller ring looks like either a fragment of an X, a kind of misshapen M, or some kind of ohm symbol, but like I said it's extremely hard to make out. I posted it to another forum because the makers mark on the main suspension didn't line up with the font of that maker, and I had concerns about its originality...it's stamped "4" which would be for Steinhauer & Lück, but the style of the 4 doesn't look like any of theirs I've seen. The consensus there was that the cross looked original, and might actually be from maker "24" who were apparently known to have mis-struck or faint 2's on some makers marked examples. They also shared some other examples from that maker with additional marks to the smaller ring as well. I would be really interested to get people's opinions on this cross here, but if we agree that this one is original, it would certainly seem like there are genuine examples out there with marks on the smaller rings.

can you send detailed photos?

I have one marked with an ,,u" in the exact same spot besides mine I've never seen another EK2 marked on the smaller ring.

Thank you for the assessment, Fritz! I guess it just has an usual marking.

Haven't seen that before, but you you post photos of front and rear of cross?

Can you post photos?

Source https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/curioandrelicfirearmsforum/gf-marked-wire-wrap-enfield-t3309.html More reference info on these neat old rifles... please see: https://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Rifle_Grenades_and_Dischargers.html GF = grenade firing Another: Indian made GRI SMLE grenade firing rifle: https://www.gunboards.com/threads/1942-gri-grenade-wrap.1245053/#post-11293871

It is indeed, wstevenson, welcome to the forum

KG 26, losses for September 1939, found in a Russian archive.

Hi John, war time Souvals had a wire type retaining catch, as far as I know this is the only way to tell for sure as Souval continued to make these crosses into the 1970's. I think it's impossible to tell on the flat type retaining catch which you have posted whither it's war time or not, but the consensus seems to be the flat type retaining catches are post war until proven otherwise. Here is the wire type retaining catch which is accepted as wartime.

It's a common medal I would wait and buy a better one

Can anyone recognise who this Luftwaffe guy is or read the words on the back.It is possible to make out the word 'Fritz' and a strange word which looks like'Afrbrink'(?) Hope someone can help. Andrew.

So the mystery is solved, brink is actually his name or rather Ahrbrink. How would that translate? for the memories, yours Fritz Ahrbrink, 15.2.43 ?

Cheers Kenny.

Hi Colin, Hauptfuhrer would be the equivalent to Hauptmann which is a Captain

Chris or one of our other German members should be able to tell us what it says , or even Gregs wife.

Allot of good points raised there, always hard to tell what it says because of the old style script looks like Fritz Thassrbrink or Tessbrink, as Greg says as this is Black and white the chap might not even be a pilot kind of looks red to me for flak but really hard to make a judgement with out seeing any more of the picture such as awards etc to clarify whither he is a pilot or not.

you need to be careful with the date though, it is clearly lighter than the rest of the writing hinting it could have been added later or with a different pen... it also could have simply been an issue with the fountain pen that wrote the script on the back. The numbers are written in proper German style though (a 1 always looks likes a 7 when drawn in correct German style)

Someone may correct me if wrong, very hard to make out the exact insignia... The Collar and Shoulder boards are either denoting a Corporal or a Feldwebel... which is a Warrant Officer. I'm leaning more towards the latter. And yes it is a photograph not a postcard.

I think thats the card/photo manufacturers.Its like an embossed watermark.

Thanks RAF!! The bottom right hand corner is embossed 'Langhans', Don't think he's a famous ace anyway!