Pre WW1 Austrian Navy Photograph - China Station

An interseting CDV card backed original photograph of Austrian KuK Kreigsmarine sailors in China. The photograph studio based in Peking. Approx 125 x 190mm. Hand writing to the reverse and dated 1913.  read more

Code: 1114

British WW2 Attributed RAF Warrant Officer Pathfinder Service Dress Tunic

Attributed to Warrant Officer Robert Burns DFM , served No. 97 Squadron RAF as Flight Engineer on Lancaster Bombers.

RAF blue wool serge four pocket service dress tunic with all brass RAF buttons. Warrant Officer cloth ranks to the cuffs. Bullion Flight Engineer half wing brevet. Ribbon bar for the Distinguished Flying Medal and service Air Crew Europe and Mediterranean and wit...  read more

Code: 1676

British 1751 Pattern Infantry Hanger

A good personalized example as used by infantrymen during the French and Indian Wars, The American Revolution and the Seven Years War.

Heavy all brass hilt and guard, slightly curved blade maker marked marked with a running fox on one side. This is the mark of the Samuel Harvey, a Birmingham, England sword maker working from 1748 to around 1800. Sometimes they are marked with “S...  read more

Code: 1696

British Household Cavalry Cuirass and storage bag

A Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment (Lifeguards/Blues & Royals) cuirass/breastplate and backplate. Consists of front and rear armour sections and two shoulder straps. Polished/chromed steel breastplates with brass edging and brass studs. Shoulder straps of brass plates on leather straps. Both plates are backed in leather.

Overall in excellent condition. Mirror surface.
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Code: 1686

German Bundeswehr Major Generals Service Dress Tinic

A unnamed or attributed Army General Officers servcie dress tunic. Has the correct gilt piping for Generals rank in addition to having its correct collar tabs and shoulder rank insignia befitting a Major General. Gilt buttons complete this nice post war arrangement. Not often seen on the market. Not dated so unclear if it’s a post unification period tunic or earlier. The main parts are there, r...  read more

Code: 1677

Australia WW2 Ground Sheet/ Poncho

Rubberized canvas. Based on the Great War pattern this was virtually unchanged for servcie in WW2. No markings to be seen.
Overall in very good condition. Very pliable. Only with some usual light soiling and storage marks.  read more

Code: 1678

Australia WW2 Jungle Greens Shirt -1945 dated

A rare shirt in factory dyed jungle green cotton drill. Pull over type shirt.
The original white cotton tag undyed and dated 1945.

Many on the marked have been post war dyed and identified as such having a dyed label.  read more

Code: 1688

Germany WW1 Trench Armour Breast Shield

A nice original example as issued to machine gunners, observers and sentries exposed to small arms fire. Three piece construction, breast shield and two riveted shoulder brackets. Sadly missing the two hanging rings that support the lower waist skirts. Still has the original size “2” stamping on the inside.
Overall ware consummate with age.

Note : This is a heavy item re...  read more

Code: 1687

Australia A Rare Militia Period Scottish Battalion Officers Dublet

c.1930-42 period. Tailor made in a thick, heavy quality khaki wool with oxidized AMF buttons. Rounded doublet patch pockets. Looks to have never been worn. Never had collar badges or shoulder titles or even any provision for such badges. Full quality silk tailor lining and comes with a matching service dress belt. Overall a very high quality tunic in fantastic condition that would suit any Sco...  read more

Code: 1681

US Vietnam War Period M69 Flak Jacket.

M69 Fragmentation protective body armour vest. Made in green nylon with covered fragmentation vest containing a ballistic nylon filler sealed in a waterproof vinyl plastic casing. The filler consists of 12 layers of ballistic nylon cloth in the front and upper back, 10 layers in the back with an additional two layers, 15 centimetres wide, up the spine, and six layers in the collar. A set of pl...  read more

Code: 1684