Sal Williams

Any ideas gents?

I have been watching the history hannel series WW1 in color where they have colorized footage of the Great War. I was wondering what all my gurus thought of the accuracy of the uniforms and planes and tanks?

Best, Sal

I have been watching the history hannel program WW1 in color where they have colorized footage of the Great War. I was wondering what all my gurus thought of the accuracy of the uniforms and planes and tanks?

Best, Sal

What I read about in horato hornblower was this and had no flags.

http://www.napoleonguide.com/semaphore.htm

But by WW1 they didn't use this? It was flags? I would have thought the Napoleonic one was the more advanced one. This is very interesting!

Best, Sal

Nice, haven't seen that type before! like the package!

Does anyone know what year this may have been taken? It is in very nice condition, Sal. The clarity is fairly impressive.

Thank you for posting,

Ryan

Hi Ryan, i would have answered you but I have no idea I just let the wizards work thier magic!

Thanks Chip, but the photo has found a more worthy home now! Why do you believe Semaphore? My only understanding of the Semaphore is from reading the Horatio Hornblower books and it was described as some giant thing with waving metalic arms. how do they work anyways??? Is it elactric or tugs on cord like morse code? very interesting indeed!

you Imperial cats are a knowlegable lot! Always fun learning from you folks!

Best, Sal

Ricky can we beilieve your theory to be correct? Fairly certain? it makes sense to me.

Hey Sal! Chip is goooooooooooooood!

You didn't notice, and I didn't notice!!!

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Actual size of that insignia is about the tip of a ballpoint pen!

Didn't notice??? I don't even know what it is Please tell!

There must be SS men who were former Legion Condor members. How about pics of SS with spaniankreuz?

Unfortunatly not mine Joe!

I do not own an RK of any type, and so I "have no horse in this race."

I was wondering, though, whether anyone had ever gone directly to S&L to see if they could shed any light on their wartime production methods or figures? It also seems conceivable, though just barely, that someone who was working at S&L in 1945 might still be alive somewhere.

Is there any possibility of going directly to the source on these questions of production methods and production techniques? In other words, to find out if there were indeed "parts bins" for components of RK's used as part of the production method.

Or is the entire subject verboten, particularly in light of the wandering dies?

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Hi Bill,

I learned the answer to that way back in an early thread at WAF which Prosper was involved in. I thought the same thing asked the same question an got no response. So I started emailing and calling S&L. I found out as many before me had that S&L won't tell you ANYTHING!

Then to make thing worse, Jacques shows me more LC souvanier items

and others

Some others

another view

These sold on a Polish auction site and my little heart broke because I didn't get them. I assumed they were special made for an officer or group of officers but Jacques said they were souvanier type items for LC soldiers. He showed me others of the same general pattern that looked like cheaper versions of the same thing. I found them very interesting!

Damn! Nice pic Jacques!!!!

Sorry Ricky,

I searched and searched through my history but to no avail I just dont know where I found that.Must have been ebay as I was doing a lot of ebaying this week.

Best, Sal

on the lower right of his tunic,.. turkish star?

I can't remember where i saw it. Ebay is a possibility. I will look in my history and weed through all the porn to see if I can find it

This one is for Ricky

another

another

Don't really know where to put this but this forum seems close I guess. This puppy is on ebay. I am gonna guess it's not WW2 due to the fuzzy pics. Seems deceptive. What do you folks think?

Best, Sal

Does anyone know what this is supposed to be? Reminds me of the hat humphry Bogart wore in African Queen

Best, Sal