Chris Boonzaier

Indeed, a Brit made one. Difference between a US and brit gasmask? About 10 times the price :-( ... man., what I would give for a brit one ....

Luverly !! I bet you wish you could pick a few

Hi, Just asked a serious Scout collector. he has one as well. They were given out within the regiment, but were also for sale commerially. A nice piece. best Chris

A militaria collector without an Epson... just aint a colector...

So far I have found one Brit/South African group to Boonzaier... he fought on the brit side in the boer war The name Boonzaier first burst onto the scene in South Africa around 1750 and we all originate from him, so he is related in a way. It was on auction. A boring QSA-KSA... and instead of the EUR150 it was worth.... I paid over EUR500.... There just happened to be another bidder with a passing interest. No way that will ever get a fraction of that price again :-(

Are you sure they were presented to Selous Scouts? it looks to be a long after event thing that was commercially availible to anyone with a Franklin mint catalog.... Sorry, but I dont think this is anything official, or related to the Scouts themselves.

That has a lot of Pins !!

I just saw one, demilled Canadian style, with a sledge....... USD8000 What do you guys think? An OK price? Not that I have the money :-(

Sorry, forgot to post the pics....

Hi, Is there any hard and fast rule as to the different dog tag types? Here are 3. 1) Kurt G?pels, similar to the WW2 pattern 2) Peter Weis, a set of 2, mane on one, unit on another 3) Reserve Inf Regt 37 (number 249, 3rd Komp.) no name.

Are there certificate collectors? for me the documents with the clasps on them would be the more interessting thing to collect (I am a "paper guy" :-)

Maybe I can shed some light here.... maybe a wild guess as well..... I remember before the ground offensive began, in the months leading up to the advance there was a lot of political talk going on in France as to whether the French Division (Division Daguet) would actually advance into Iraq or whether they would stay in Saudi Arabia in case of a potential Iraqi flank attack. It was probably the most tension we had in the Gulf. Guys in my company were even talking about deserting with their APCs, forming own groups and crossing the border on their own, damning the consequences and going out in a blaze of Glory. The whole time it was rather "iffy" as to whether we would go to Iraq. Case 1: Maybe the bar shown was a specimen made up in this time? In the end the Division Daguet crossed the border 24 hours BEFORE the official start of the ground war along with a brigade of the 82nd Airborne, so the fears of not being in Iraq fell away. Case 2: Maybe the A.S. clasp was initially thought out for troops who did not cross the border (supply troops in Saudi Arabia for instance?). In the end everyone got the middle east bar Case 3: Maybe after Div. Dag. left there were to be French troops kept in Saudi (Embassy guards, Liason etc) who were to get the bar? If they did or not, i have no idea. Maybe back in the old days unofficial bars were worn, but I would say that anyone trying to wear unnoficial bars in the French Army in the 80`s and 90`s would have had his gonads removed. There was zero tolerance for things like that.

An interesting medal! A question as to value. Does the amount of people who got a specific bar effect the value? I assume there are many more Europe bars than Java ones... but maybe it is just as easy to order a Java bar than a Europe bar, giving them the same value? All the best Chris

More or less exactly that one ......

Hi, This one set me back USD2800 postage included.... had a sell a British medal group to finance it :-( I am not sure if that was a bargain, or expensive... I just know I have never seen one for sale before. The MAN factory made a small amount. All the numbers match except the cover to the spring. The weapon was captured by a Canadian soldier and taken back to Canada, where I picked it up last week. I saw repro leather straps for USD28.

Anytime you want, You, David, Jens welcome to shoot down for a weekend. We INVENTED the EURO !!!!

You betcha ass. I just need to find the best way to display it... (Just so you "non weapons" guys dont miss my baby.. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8846

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discreetly deactivated, but all parts original and still moving.....

A super story... and a rather nice pocket knife as well !!!

I dont know, call me a super sceptic, but something is strange with the idea of a spy, under cover, from an occupied country... and the germans are openly sending awards and money to his parents in an occpied country? There is a really good book by ladislas Farago that goes into good detail about the German spying in WW2, especially this kind of spying. it may be worth picking up acopy and seeing if there is any mentions of him and his operation. Best Chris

TomY has a nice 1st pattern, ask him to post it. Best Chris