Another Week Another Auction Find

[tabs]

Yep this is getting too easy...and expensive...Anyway this week it is a High Condition WW2 Luger (S42 with 1937 Chamber Date), 1942 Dated Holster, Nazi Marked Combat Knife wt Scabard and to top it off the US GI Bring Back Certificate dated November 1945 with these items listed by serial number. I think a German WW2 Military Collector would ***** his pants over this one.

[Jeff Higgins]

Very, very nice, there tabs. Congrats. I have a similar holster/sidearm combination, but with the far more pedestrian P-38. My father-in-law retrieved it from a German aquaintance in Italy who had no further use for it.

[nostatic]

how the hell do you eat your cereal with that?

Spoons! We need more spoons!

[Jeff Higgins]

What the hell; here is a photo. Maybe you can tell me what the dagger is - got it from my uncle Deiter when I was about ten years old. Looks like a real ivory grip, has a pewter sheath, swastika on the hilt. The blade is engraved with a small oval with "P.D. Luneschioss Solingen" on the outer ring, and a dagger with a traditional Prussian parade helmet inside the inner ring. Ever see one before? I used to chase my brother around the yard with this thing until mom made me stop.

[tabs]

Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
Very, very nice, there tabs. Congrats. I have a similar holster/sidearm combination, but with the far more pedestrian P-38. My father-in-law retrieved it from a German aquaintance in Italy who had no further use for it.

Was the German aquaintence TOTE....

And Nostatus....give me some time and I am sure I'll find some real spoons to eat with...

[tabs]

Its a Cermonial Dagger worn on Parade occasions. Both knives are common, nothing really special about them. The only thing that makes my rig have a bit of extra premium is the GI Cerificate stating Knife and Gun together. Thats provence...

The WW2 bring back stuff is what everyone wants. Too much has been imported. Everything imported after 1968 has to be stamped by the importer. Stuff was brought into the US until 1968, either by Dealers, Servicemen, Collectors or Tourists. So stuff that is documented GI WW2 bring back is the choich stuff, as there can be no question as to when and where it was aqqiured.

[Jeff Higgins]

Oh well; I guess I can keep chasing my brother with it.

The P-38 was lifted from a dead German GI a couple of weeks (maybe months) after D-Day. My father-in-law did not participate in the actual invasion; he was still in North Africa. Spent most of his tour chasing Rommel.

[targa911S]

I like the dagger a lot!

[tabs]

Just so U know that I am more than a spoon nut, and truly am a man of wealth and taste here are acoupla items I picked up this morining as well. For the low price of $1404 out the door for both the Oriental Rug and Mahogany Partners Desk with Leather Chair . All I have left now is the shipping on the items.

The Desk looks to be American Empire with the rounded front, but we shall see when I examine the Drawers and was $1170.00. The Rug is 4 X 6, looks to be good quality Persian and was $234.00. Thats less than the price one would pay for new cr@p.

[tabs]

Jeffs Dagger is worth around $400.00, one sold with a cracked handle for $234.00 today. The White Handle is made of Bakelite I think, its a fake Ivory.

The way to test if its Real Ivory is to stick a hot pin into the material in a hidden place, if it smells like burning hair, its Ivory.

[competentone]

Originally posted by tabs
Yep this is getting too easy...and expensive...Anyway this week it is a High Condition WW2 Luger (S42 with 1937 Chamber Date), 1942 Dated Holster, Nazi Marked Combat Knife wt Scabard and to top it off the US GI Bring Back Certificate dated November 1945 with these items listed by serial number. I think a German WW2 Military Collector would ***** his pants over this one.

It looks like you finally bought some nice stuff -- instead of those silly fake "Indian artifacts."

[tabs]

Your P-38 with Holster I think is worth right around $1500. Depending on the year and mfg of the P-38 it could be more or less. P-38s have risen in value significantly recently...to $800 for a very clean run of the mill gun..rarer variations can be 2K or even more. Ones marked HP..or Heeres Pistol...are commercial mfg and are among the most desirable.

[targa911S]

Originally posted by tabs


The way to test if its Real Ivory is to stick a hot pin into the material in a hidden place, if it smells like burning hair, its Ivory.

Oh yeah I carry a hot pin with me all the time.

[tabs]

Originally posted by competentone
It looks like you finally bought some nice stuff -- instead of those silly fake "Indian artifacts."

The Jury is not completely out on the Indian gun, I still have to show it to the guys who have dealt in the stuff for ages. They just have said they havn't run across those marks before, and they want to see them before they say yeah or nay. I just just take it that its not for reals. As my risk to reward ratio was so low on it, I had to take the chance.

Believe me I am not in the habit of buying stuff that supposedly was owned by someone or was somewhere at a certain time in history. I did buy the Otto Voit Rifle, but that came from the family, through someone who had known the lady for more than 20 years. Currently pictures of that rifle are in Otto Voits File at the LBH National Monument, and I will get that gun tested to see if it was at the Battle of the LBH. I don't expect it to test positive, but who knows its worth the shot.

I mostly buy bread and butter type of stuff like U see today.

[tabs]

U wana know why that desk pictured is a GOOD piece of furniture, and how U can tell from just a photograph? Very simple really, take a look at the Ball and Claw Feet on the Desk. See how they have tension and almost look life like. Thats one of the signs of a REALLY GOOD PIECE of furniture, along with the highly figured Mahogany. Mahogany is called the King of Woods, being an expensive wood it was used on the very best furniture. I am hoping 1810 to 1840....or American Empire.

Never the less it doesn't really matter as I have been looking on and off for years for the right Desk or Library Table, and this seems to fit the bill perfectly with regards to desirabilty and cost.

[competentone]

Originally posted by tabs
I mostly buy bread and butter type of stuff like U see today.

Speaking of "bread and butter" did you see this (I posted the link in the SLR thread:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=67679283

[tabs]

I don't check Gun Broker nor Guns America....there is good stuff to be gotten cheap...but U have to get up earlier than the Early Bird that gets the Worm. I know a guy in Miss that looks at 4 AM his time everyday for a good value.

The Bulgarian AKs are the snazz...thats why I bought an Aresnal, as the Bulgarians make em here in LV. If I were to buy a Full Auto I would buy a Thompson Machine Gun or maybe a Browning Model 1918...They are American History Baby.

[Nader]

You should both be banned for owning anti-semitic artifacts.

[tabs]

And what about those P cars...Dr Porsche was one of Hitlers buds.

[slodave]

I have a nice map of the LBH massacre that is to being framed. My dad was a big collector of maps of the Americas. He recently sold his entire collection (I am disappointed, I enjoyed all of them), but has a huge collection of first edition books - like Lewis and Clark diaries.

I like following your threads about firearms, Tabs. I hope to someday own an early Winchester repeater and an early Colt revolver.

Dave