Chris Boonzaier

Ouch, the quality has suffered there... their previous white Metal skull badge was an absolute classic.. these look like Pakistan specials :-(

Hi, Just sorting through the drawers ;-)

Hi, Apparently out of a US Veterans estate. Maybe he nicked the shoulderboard and ribbon from the same guy?

I think this is a nice little piece.... :-)

Hi, does anyone know these... and how to get at the info? They seem to have a lot!! http://www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de/PH8I-34316/index.htm?kid=aa96bafb-3e3c-4349-981e-5ee955dffa04

Hi, Here are some Railway troop uniforms... I am assuming guy 1 and guy 3 habe Lebels that have had something added to the barrel to take a German Bayonet?

Thanks, it was laying in a stack of "unidentified" pics for ages!

Hi, nice! I traded mine away as I dont want to branch out into navy. The strap is a pain in the ass to find! I never did find one.

Hi, a French MG, the barrel pointing downward.

Hi, I picked up Kraus a week ago but there is still a lot to work through, Its a mega Series!

Hi Glenn, Thanks, I forgot they did not have numbers.

Hi, is that the corner of an Eisenbahn Shoulder board?

Hi, can I assume these guys are from the 3rd garde Grenadiere regt? Thanks Chris

Hi, these are the seems I mean...

The nicer version of the 21st B.I.R. award doc, this time to the Regimental Waffenmeister....

I assume this is a Gun Layer or whatever the arty guys call themselves?

Hi, I cannot read the shoulder board... can anyone make an educated guess? Another Bavarian, but I cannot make out the board

Hi, I assume most of the postwar ones were KO... then there were 10 years of private purchase.... I dont think it is possible to say 800 or Silber pieces were never awarded, but they were not really the Official Govt approved model. Just what they handed out in the mid 1930s (which I think were the absolute exception) I cannot say :-(

Bingo! Lets not forget, for 15 years noone in Germany cared foe uniforms.... then in 1933 SA, NSKK, NSFK... there was suddenly a big demand. My guy recieved the EK1 as well as the document in 1934, I wonder what kind it was?

Hi, awards of the Iron Cross stopped in 1925, HOWEVER, it was possible at a later date to get the medal itself if an award had been made and approved before the cut off date in 1925. Most likely is that your guy had his award approved before 1925, at which time he was in Canada, then in the 1930s he wrote saying "Where is my bloody medal!" I have a group where the gus has a note from the division in November 1918 saying "Lt XXX deserved the EK1, but the division has none to award"... fast forward to 1934, the Reichswehrministerium issues his award document and sends him a cross. Best Chris

I was looking for the final battalion card and recieved it this week.... All helmets covered now! :-)

Hi, It is steel. Here they are with the regular KS98s

Does anyone have any wartime pics showing the trifolds being worn?

Herer is a nice study of the same guy and also pretty much nails which bayonet was used in the Herero war...

I was happy to add a third one to the set... Top one is a WW1 period Eichhorn, then a WW1 period WKC smaller bayonet and then the combat knife... Strangely enough the top one does not fit on a rifle.... The oil hole (or whatever its called, is missing on the top one, and is just cosmetic in the grips of the smaller one...