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  1. 1st This has got to be the most attractive banknote they ever produced. 2nd more banknotes 3rd Kantine money 4th Occupation money for Austria 1944
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  2. Very collectable items from former royal households have been sold and auctioned in the past years. About 30-40 years ago, many pieces of the Neu-Osier service from the Prussian Royal palaces were on offer, starting from around 300 Marks per item. Each piece had an inventur-number to the rear as well as the year and the manufacturer KPM (Königlich Preußische Manufaktur), etc., and was individually hand painted, every piece a work of art, which had to be exactly uniform to the specified design. Now seldom on offer. Silver table wear is also very much in demand. Photos from internet sources Signatures and date to the reverse are hand painted in a colour known as bleu mourant, as favoured by Frederick the Great. Plate from one of the royal yachts, Hohenzollern, Iduna, Meteor Neu-Rokoko Muster, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Royal table silver by Gebrüder Friedländer, Berlin
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  3. Very nice! Would be interesting to see the realized price at auction end.
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  4. And the Home Front. Pic 1 The police helmet is a Mark 2 Brodie Helmet with the 3-hole triangle on the brim indicating it was made of mild steel but was still stronger than the 4-hole version and the Civilian Zuckerman helmets. These helmets were only for Home Front use. The 2nd helmet is a Bakelite/plastic private purchase produced by Plasfort these again were only for use by the Home Front services also used in Ammunition Factory's, would have a leather or rubber chinstrap. Also a rare WW2 police peaked cap with Wiltshire Constabulary badge. Pic 2. The Ex-Policeman who runs event's at a number of venues is pictured with his Granddaughter.
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  5. And the modern army 2014 style.
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  6. Here's some photo's from this years event.
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  7. A recent Auction by a UK based auctionier had following lot - A Tschapka of private purchase quality, said to be of Westfälisches Ulanen-Regiment 5, based at Düsseldorf. The Tschapka is in almost all details of officer qaulity, however, the white rabatt in the regimental colours is an other ranks' example, the leather liner is also specificly other ranks. With the white falling horsehair plume. The item is however incomplete, missing are the Reichskokarde worn on the right side and the oval National worn on the left side of the mortarboard. Missing are also the cap lines. The headdress was probably for a one-year volunteer or a Fähnrich. Estimated value by the auctionier is 1200 - 1800 GBP. In very fine condition, not misshapen. The original transport and storage case is also included, this has several travel stickers, from Hannover to London via various other stations, probably pre-WW1. Wearer was possibly sent to the Military Attaché of the German Embassy in London at the time, for representation or educational purposes.
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  8. Very nice, great detail and craftsmanship. The first plates you listed are beautiful.
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  9. Riech? Riechen, riecht, gerochen, Geruch, Riech means smell Or do you mean Reich ? Nice Moneten all the same.
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  10. I think the auction is still actual.
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  11. Here are a few photo's of a Austin Auxiliary Towing Truck supplied to the Home Office for National Fire Service in 1942. The truck only one of two to have been fitted with it's own Wynn hosereel and pump in the back. The owner a guy well into his 80s told me it's complete history and how he regularly drives it around Trowbridge. It served in the Denbigh and Montgomeryshire joint fire service, later went into service in Bath then London. Also talked to these 3 guy who are re-enacting the Cold War 1970s period. the guy on the left drove this vehicle all the way from Poland.
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  12. I presume the police tunic is original of the period. Shame to wear it, once worn-out, no replacements. People today are all overweight, nothing like that in the 1940s, people had very little to eat with the rations of the day, but much more alert and fitter. Tunic collar should be fully closed, that is what the hooks are for.
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  13. A further Schaffnertasche, as previous lot, now awaiting restoration, one of three in posession of the Museum, two in storage, one good example in the permanent exhibition. The leather shows much more abuse than the previous example. The extras are also missing. There is some strong verdigris to some of the brass fittings inside. The leather carrying strap has a more simplified buckle than the previous example. Hidden inside the bag were a hoard of greymetal zink coins dating from 1940-1944, most in a poor state, as they had been over 80 years in contact with the leather surfaces within. A time capsule discovered after more than 80 years! More pictures to follow next week. The coin containers/dispensers on this example are all still fully functioning!
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  14. Another M1917, marked "ZD 194", has the liner and partial chinstrap.
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  15. Another M1917, no liner, only the remnants of the wool pad remain, no chinstrap either. The exterior has been painted a camo pattern with the North Russian Expedition insignia on the front. Both the camo paint and insignia are not original to the helmet, but it is how I got it. For helmets that portray extremely rare or hard to find units, they all have been faked in some fashion, do your research before buying.
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  16. Another M1917, this one has the liner but no chinstrap. On the outside shell is the insignia for the US 27th Infantry Division in red paint.
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  17. Here is another US M1917 Helmet, minus liner and chinstrap marked "ZC 188".
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  18. Langenlebarn, the situation in 1945 with the Allies closing in from East and West, the Russians arrived first 0n 7. April 1945 in Langenlebarn. It was later handed over to the Americans, who then used the airfield till 1955, and was then handed back to the newly-formed Österreichisches Bundesheer, since then there is a "Hubschrauberstaffel" based there. The Allies closing in on Austria, April-May 1945 The situation around Vienna in early April 1945, the Red Army closing in from all sides. . Eilig zusammengetrommelte Trupps aus Wehrmacht, SS und Volkssturm sollten Wien "bis zur letzten Patrone" verteidigen, lautete der Befehl aus Berlin. 30.000 deutsche Soldaten, oft halbe Kinder oder alte Männer, standen 400.000 Rotarmisten gegenüber. Die sowjetische Übermacht an Panzern und schweren Geschützen war noch größer. Fighting within the city perimeter lasted from 6. till 13. April 1945. Alarm Bataillon hurriedly raised for the defence of Vienna, many of them are from SS units (as in photo here), Wehrmacht and Volkssturm, but also school personnel and cadets from the nearby Flying School of the Luftwaffe in Tulln. 30.000 Germans, often children or old men, stood against 400.000 Russians, as well as a vast superiority in tanks, artillery and aircraft. The same place in April 1945, occupied by the Red Army Russians marching through the centre of Wien. The Hanuschhof in Wien Landstraße, it is said that a deserter was shot here in April 1945 On 2. April 1945 Vienna was declared a defence zone, recommended that women and children leave the city. Vienna, Votivkirche (church), a shell from 1945 still sticks in the door. A documentation about Allied airraids from 1943-1945 over Austria and Langenlebarn: http://www.airpower.at/news03/0813_luftkrieg_ostmark/timeline.htm Those killed in April-May 1945 in the vicinity of Langenlebarn and the airfield may have later been buried in St. Pölten: http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2018/st-poelten-soldatenfriedhof-2-weltkrieg_bez-st-poelten_niederoesterreich_oe.html
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  19. great stuff, I've been to a few events lately but all Medieval so not so relevant here. Been a great summer for weekend days out to these things for once!
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