Military Collectables

Unusual WW1 Era Hand Crafted Memorial Card & Separate Letter

This roughly A5 sized card has been hand crafted with fine calligraphy writing and a hand painted watercolour scene of a medical corps soldier cradling an injured or dead soldier, it is entitled ‘ abbreviation of Rev H. R. Halls ‘sonnet on the sacrifice of young lives from Oxford’, below this a verse and explanation with a date of 1917, this comes in good order for its age with some mild corner...  read more

Code: 31535

WW2 Era US Purple Heart Medal.

The United States of America’s oldest decoration for Military Merit still awarded in the name of the president. This one a nice WW2 – Korean war era medal in very good used condition with two ribbon bars, one bar a later addition and an enamel buttonhole bar. The purple enamel on the medal, is glass enamel and not the current resin based enamel, so a genuine issue.  read more

Code: 31533

WW1 French Water Bottle.

An original WW1 French issue M1877 water canteen, untouched and in need of a little TLC but it is good and solid with some evidence of original paint and retains its original leather carrying strap.  read more

Code: 31532

Scarce Python Patented Percussion Capper

A Python Patented size 2 straight line Percussion Capper. An over engineered fast loading capper that holds a large quantity of caps and you push the handle to expel the caps. It has a thick wire catch at the end to hold the spring while loading the caps. The handle folds for carrying, probably for target of game shooting. It measures 12 inches long.  read more

Code: 31531

WW1 French Military Cooking Pot.

A large approximately 5 litre cooking pot, one supplied to a squad for around 10 to 12 men to cook their own food. Originally designed in the mid-19th century, it was typically made of tinned iron or zinc-coated metal, consisting of a primary pot, a smaller lid used as a frying pan.
This one has the makers mark on the bottom of C E Moulins and comes in very good condition. It measures 11...  read more

Code: 31530

Collection of WW1 1916 Messages and Signals – Zeppelins Etc

An interesting group of 15 November 1916 (one creeping into January 1917) of outgoing ‘messages and signals’ on Army form No C2121, there are simple ones dealing with weather reports but many warning of Zeppelin sightings and direction headings some coming from Derwent and heading for places like Birch Vale towards Manchester, Derby with a Zeppelin over Bollington with a second over Normanton t...  read more

Code: 31529

WW1 Era British Red Cross Printed Triangular Sling

This interesting large size British Red Cross arm sling could date anywhere from the Great War up to WW2, it was produced by S. Maw & Sons of London and features all sorts of broken bones and the use for the bandage/sling, it measures approx. 58 inches along the bottom line and looks like it was produced in a large sheet from which each sling was individually cut, good clean condition.  read more

Code: 31528

WW2 Italian Engineer / Pioneers Helmet Plate.

Single brass 1928 pattern helmet plate for the Italian Engineer / Pioneer regiment, pre-WW2 issues have battalion numbers, I believe. Worn on the Italian Hadrian helmet and the tropical helmet, this one is in excellent condition with all three lugs on the back. it measures 3 inches long.  read more

Code: 31527