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Wow nice collection!!

Question, the headset with the speaker is that typically uboat? And is this a rare type?

Thanks,

Floris

Nice stuff here!! I really like the picturess of Michels manequins!!!! But a boxcollector? That's a new term for me :)

Hi,

You asked my opinion on this cap but I only had the standard Tellermuetze (not private purchase capss) in my collection.

So I really can't help you with this one, sorry.

Maybe you are right. Nice thing and looks better in grey!

Cheers,

Floris

ohne thing i dont understand ???

i find a few pics int my books from this piece on a e boat

but the 2 arm with the big magnets are always missing

enybody know way the screw them of on the e boat

thanks

gunther

Compasses mounted with those "iron balls" on the side are magnetic compasses. Maybe the one you have on the e-boat picture is a Gyro-compass.

Regards,

Floris

Bargains can still be found.. I just got a K&O for 50?!!

Cheers

Max

www.atlantik-pirat.com

Wow show us!!!

I am looking for the round door of a standard kriegsmarine Kieninger & Obergfell clock, can anone help me?

Nice finds

Hi david,

I will check for the maker and age of the crane and hoist.

I know that it's a french made one but i think it's a WW2 one.

To share, one picture from german u-boot plates and one with several artifacts from the U-bunker:

Regards

Ben

I thought that the boards were for an Oberfahnrich(Senior Officer Candidate).

Paul

You thought right! My mistake!

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Not as great as Gordon's cap but a very nice tellermuetze and a complete and wonderfull pair of obergefreiter's shoulder boardswhich I recently found on ebay.

The tellermuetze is a normal standard issue with removable blue top. The top has a name tag in it and vague acceptance stamps.

The white stiffner in the front bears the number 55 for the headsize. As you can see the capframe consists of the see through cellulose material

It's has a very nice "floppy" look.

I'm still looking for the capinsignia!

Nice line throwing pistol!

The CXN Family...

Very nice binoculars!!!

White is more common, but black is perfectly OK also. The material used is more important than the colour. Card is more suspect as this was not used often on original issue caps but almost always on postwar issue caps.

Thanks,

I learned a lot from you already about Kriegsmarine dd-caps and visor hats on this forum (and Torpedo Loss!)

I find the chinstrap also interesting on this one because it looks like the " softer type" (at least it's called like that in KM cap threads on the waf-forum).

Very interesting pictures, didn't know they had black capframe stiffeners too.

No the barograph went elsewhere although I was thinking about it. Just have to draw the line sometimes. If what you say is correct, and it sounds like you know your subject, then the #615 would have been a very early issue KM item if it covered not only sextants. John

Maybe some other members can help us out here!

Do you still now the price asked for the barograph John? (just for comparison. PM me)

Hi John,

Just found your sextant on the dealerwebsite, he also sold a nice barograph, also yours now?

About the numbers on the KM sextants.

The number on the arc is the Plath factory serial number.

The number with the Kriegsmarine eagle above M is the German Navy satisfactory stamp, or Kriegsmarine abnahme.

So this meaned the navy approved the sextant, this was done on every Kriegsmarine item from field gear to navigational item.The department that did this for navigational items and clocks was the Deutsche Seewarte. This is also shown on the certificate in the box and probably on the left side of the arc " DS' is stamped.

About the Kriegsmarine abnahme numbers; they put them on a lot of german equipment, sextants, clocks, binoculars, barographs, anemometers, barometers etc. They numbered them whatever came up first, that's my guess/

Floris

It also looks like the sextants by Plath were sequentially numbered from 1 to the last one made. Mine is #615 and dated 1939. Looking at the other examples, it looks like this number kept getting bigger as the war went on, so I do not think they started over at the beginning on the year.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

John

Late war version of an azimuth circle. 2nd pattern

early war version azimuth circle.

On the lid of the bx is the same Kriegsmarine number with M as on he circle.

Another great KM item!

2nd pattern in box

1st pattern sextant in box

Hello all,

What do you think of this lufftwaffe M40 with single decal?

The black stripes on it s old tar.

Many thanks!