Your 2022 Pick Ups

[Brig]

Forgot a couple of pieces...not a spectacular year, but enough to reignite my enthusiasm...hopefully 2023 lets me make up for a couple slow years!
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[Brig]

Stunning pick ups!

Here is my in 2022

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This Weihnachten 1942 cartoon poster is one of my favorites what I had seen in this year! Congratulations to adding it to your collection

Nobody who buys an SS wrapper is just buying a bland US jacket...there's got to be a story behind that pickup I think we're all curious to hear

[Brig]

Here is a selection of my 2022 pickups. This year was marked by my restoration project and the expansion of my SA sports badge collection.

What's the buckle looking thing above the holsters? Never seen anything like that before

[Finngaill]

Nobody who buys an SS wrapper is just buying a bland US jacket...there's got to be a story behind that pickup I think we're all curious to hear

Unfortunately there is not big story behind of this. US jackets are mine side collection outside of the SA/PL and now I start to take steps in the collecting of SS uniforms. US jacket is named.

This time it was simple as that

SS Mantel original came from Florida veteran. He liberate it from the SS office near Dachau

[Finngaill]

What's the buckle looking thing above the holsters? Never seen anything like that before

It is brocade holster device. Here is photo of the holster with the device.

Credit Sammler
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[NSDAP Sammler]

What's the buckle looking thing above the holsters? Never seen anything like that before

It is - as TJ correctly writes - a metal holster suspension device for a 1939 pattern NSDAP brocade dress pistol support cross strap. So it's just a small part of a much larger piece. I had loops sewn from NSDAP collar tab braid and brown shirt fabric for the piece so that I could connect it to my Brocade Belt because I don't have a original cross strap. These pieces are almost impossible to find complete and when they are, they are priceless. Even the suspension device alone is very rarely found as a spare part. That had been a real stroke of luck.

Here you can take a look at a complete Set: Brocade Dress Pistol Holster Rig

[08SMLE48]

My Type 99 made it. It’s a 25th series (I believe) Kokura. She has the original sling and bayonet (Toyota Automatic Loomworks) that was brought back with her. Though she is missing the firing pin spring and safety knob.

[MAP]

My Type 99 made it. It’s a 25th series (I believe) Kokura. She has the original sling and bayonet (Toyota Automatic Loomworks) that was brought back with her. Though she is missing the firing pin spring and safety knob.

Nice. Getting pretty close to a true "last ditch" type.

[08SMLE48]

Nice. Getting pretty close to a true "last ditch" type.

Yep pretty close. I’d say about halfway to the last “last ditch”. It’s still solid though with some rust I need to get rid of. I’ll post a separate thread for her with better pictures.