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It's ugly, but you don't often see HJ knives for less than $30...

It certainly photographs nicely. The grips look perfecty mated to the grip (unless the crews look messed with) - the reddish composite grips do make a nice contrast with the blued hardware. Nice find.

Scott

The screws don't seem to be messed with. I suppose it might have been an earlier stamp or an old part that somehow found it's way into a later production run.

There was a strange bit of luck involved in this bayonet. I guy that I work with knew that I was hunting for a red bakelite bayonet, and saw one at a local antique show. At the time, he couldn't reach me to see if I wanted it. I found this one on eBay a few weeks later from a seller in the same general area, and brought it in to work to show him. It was the exact same bayonet that he saw out there.

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The middle ribbon really looks like a West Wall to me.

Does the one on the right have three faded colored stripes on a white background, or just two?

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The ribbon in second place is the Hamburg Hanseatenkreuz, no doubt about that one.

The ribbon in fourth place looks most like the Silesian Eagle. The placement would make sense too. No need for a long service ribbon, if he came into the war too late to have earned one. Perfectly normal combination.

Hi there it is a replica model gun.....not ever designed to fire rounds the only way you could hurt someone with it is if you hit them wih it

My bad. I just wanted to try to keep the cops from kicking down your door.

A recet loft find of a MP40 MGC68 I have been told it is the eary model can someone please give me an I idea of how much I should sell it for?

It has no magazine or butt plate, could also do with a rebluing.

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I'll let someone who knows the laws in the UK speak to the specifics - but if this is a live fully-auto firearm that just came out of the woodwork, I'd advise discretion.

One LONE example, indeed!!!!

I don't remember you ever showing that before-- what's the back look like?

That's Ribbon Bar Article material, there!

I had it back up on the other forum in 2004.

Off the top of my head, I don't remember what the back looks like. I'll snap a picture when I get home from work this evening.

Also, I found this one on my hard drive:

slight off topic here but is there a legit reason for the green ribbon on this "Gold" Alfons insignia??

I haven't been able to figure out what the story with the Alfons ribbons is. There are a few different ribbons floating around out there. It seems like the ribbons only appear on the gold or the silver, but I'm not positive.

Regarding the Alfons on the ribbon bar, if it were only one of the bars, it would almost seem more likely to be legit. Against regulations, of course, but one person's odd way of showing off their Alfons. With two bars now, it seems more like something that was done with some measure of official approval on some level.

By any chance could somebody be showing they were awarded one of the Silver, Prince Alfons Badges

by placing this ribbon on the bar? just a guess on my part.

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Kevin in Deva

I've wondered for years if there was some connection to that one, but without any actual evidence, I can't really go that far. The closest I've found is an example of a medal that uses the same ribbon as a different grade of the Alfons badge. It wasn't on a bar though.

The fact is that there are at least two people that did whatever this is...

Visions of that ribbon continue to taunt me...

I can't find the picture at the moment, but I did see one bar with a dark purple brocade backing. Not sure what branch that points to...

Here's my one lone example. I've seen one other paired with a Baltic Cross, but I forget where...

Thanks for the help guys!!

Out of curiosity, does anyone know the specific regulation(s) that banned the wearing of most Freikorps and the other "vet awards" when the Hindenburg Cross came out?

Thanks,

--Chris

...and lastly, on the scabbard, a little bit of evidence that it's "been there".

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Just picked this bayonet up this weekend, and I'm rather pleased. I've always had an attraction towards the red bakelite, and I finally nabbed one. Good shape other than having been sharpened. Blade is marked WKC, and there is a Waffenamt (WaA 253) on the base of the guard that apparently corresponds to that company from 1937-1940. Curious, in and of itself, as that seems too early for this type of handle from what I understand.

...and the hospital page. Any guesses what the handwritten (non-numeric) injury/illnesses are?

It looks to me like it was crossed out with a date annotation on August 20th, ten days after Volksbund shows that he was dead. From that, could I draw the conclusion that this was some sort of record of his weapon being recovered by his unit?

...and the second page of units. Can anyone make sense of the last Marschbtl. entry, and what is written underneath it (the Sutterlin followed by the "VIII")?

He returned from leave in late May 44 via that Marsch Btl. Trying to figure out where he spent May through August of that year prior to his death.

The first page of his unit history:

Can anyone make sense of the last entry on the page on the left? It almost looks like he was awarded the Ostmedaille twice.

I had a rather fortunate turn of luck today, and found a Soldbuch that belonged to the same soldier as a Postsparbuch I already had in my collection.

From Volksbund.de:

Nachname: Kottemann

Vorname: Friedrich

Dienstgrad: Unteroffizier

Geburtsdatum: 20.03.1916

Geburtsort: Strang

Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 10.08.1944

Todes-/Vermisstenort:

Friedrich Kottemann ruht auf der Kriegsgr?berst?tte in Marigny (Frankreich) .

Endgrablage: Block 2 Reihe 24 Grab 898

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