E Williams

You sitting down???????????????????????????????

Correction... I passed on that one and bought a studio medic photo with Red Cross armband and watching another.

BTW...I wasn't looking for anything like this, I was searching for a nice studio shot of a medic...found that too with an EKII to boot.

Thanks for pointing that out........double Bingo!!!!!

BTW...the sliver mug is for years 1914-1916. The postmark on this card looks like 13-5-16. I'll have a closer look under glass when it arrives.

I just acquired a photo off EBAY that will be framed and stand next to a silver presentation mug to the same unit. I looked at this photo and saw they all had Lugers but no other possible identification as a MG squad. No drag straps or readable shoulder insignia but chances were good they were a MG unit. Then I saw their boots....all wore ski boots so I decided to buy even before I looked at the backside and guess what???????????????? Bavarian 1st Ersatz Inf Regt 1 Masch-Gew Kompany is the post mark.

Nice gathering...............

Not my Bavarian MG Luger, yours. Chris and I and Chris and Chris are waiting for photos.

As five year olds track Santa coming from the North Pole, I do the same with UPS, the better of the four carriers. No Sweat With UPS!!!! (It's my lucky day, I've got smilies )

Waiting for one to show up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do a walk over the Little Bighorn Battlefield and you can feel the stupidity and arrogance of Custer come alive!!!!

While stationed in Germany, there was a thing organized by higher ups called "Battlefield Walks" I got to go on a few but also went all over by myself. Very solemn, quiet and compelling to walk across a battlefield of old. Much more than walking through the jungles where you once walked yourself, just not the same. Here we have our Civil War battlefields, War of 1812 and Rev War ones too. I walked Culloden twice, Killikrankie, Flodden and Sterling Bridge. Corregidor Island was like walking back into History, it was as it was when we took it back. It's always was a fulfilling thing for me to walk where History was made and not just read about the places and people in History. I think it is something everyone should do and have some knowledge of those who fought and died before they do.

I had a Dutch friend and this is all he did. Go over battlefields with a metal detector. He had one helleva arsenal in his basement. When the Wall finally collapsed, he was all over eastern Europe.

I just stepped out of my MG Luger portfolio and acquired a Luger that I just couldn't pass up. A very exceptional example of a 1910 1st Issue DWM. This luger is all original including the grips. The magazine is un-numbered but time period correct magazine. Original blue and straw that rates 96-98%. It is unit marked as "13.T.S.2.179. which is translated to mean...13th Trains Sanitates Bn 2nd Company weapon #179. It was a Wurttemberg FWD Medical Bn. Before 1914 it was a battalion, from 1914 on, the companies became Detachments. This Battalion would have supported a Division with combat medics, doctors, field hospital, wagons and horses. A "Sanitatskompanie des Trainbataillons" would have had 259 PO-8 Lugers assigned to 222 combat medics, 1 to a Feldwebel, 1 to it's Vizefeldwebel, 18 to Unterofficiers, 9 to Sanitatesunterofficiers and 8 to the militarkrankenwarter. What Wurttemberg Div it supported I've yet to research. I'll have this Luger hopefully by the weekend. Until then, here are some photos from the site. My beloved Bavarian MG unit marked Luger will have to wait for a bit longer. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_11_2013/post-16240-0-92071200-1383849555.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_11_2013/post-16240-0-86289900-1383849637.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_11_2013/post-16240-0-57118900-1383849645.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_11_2013/post-16240-0-16821900-1383849653.jpg

No, I'll pass but...HARK!!!!! the Bavarian Luger deal fell through but I'm working on something else that doesn't come along very often, far less often than Bavarian MG Lugers. Two things in the making, one has to happen for the other to happen and if both come through it will be a bit away from the MG Luger collection but well worth it.

Great military life History on one individual.............Congrats!!!!

I'm not into artillery, as you know but, if I ever come across a good artillery luger with MG unit marks at a decent price, I'll pounce on it. They're out there but as Chip said, when the owners die is when the Crème d' Crème will become available.

I've come to the conclusion that better buys off dealer websites are far more achievable but one has to be there at that right time to be successful still.

I have returned and I'm not a happy camper. The last box of drag straps was sold not more than five minutes before I arrived. Other than that, it was a wasted trip, gas and time.

Combat arms usually is unless the collector has a connection with some other field such as Signals or Medical. Right now I know of an early medic/corpsman's Luger, really great shape for sale and I'd love to have it but it's not a priority.

and if they have more money than you. (Why can't I have access to the forum smilies?)

Speaking of a box full, I'm heading out early tomorrow to return to an old military junk shop I know of and there just might be a 'box full'. ;)

I know, since talking about Lugers, one member here has gone and bought up a chest full and Bavarian MG ones too. I won't say who he is but his initials are H O S S. ;)

It's a Dog Eat Dog world out there!!!!! Sorta like Black Friday shopping fights except we men stay home. :)

I'm not interested myself. I'd rather put the money into a Luger, my primary collecting interest. I don't have a place to display it anyway.