Very nice! Must have taken a while to complete this. Congrats!
Thank you for sharing.
-Dos
Congratulations Tony.
A great pair of uniforms, accessories and complements.
I really like it. Feel free to upload more photos ... even if you have to get on a chair to take photos in front of the mannequins
Regards.
Santi
Nice looking display
gregM
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Awesome display.
Very well done and the items look to be in excellent condition.
That Stormtruppen badge make that one POP!!!
Semper Fi
Phil
Nice. What pistol would have been in that big holster?
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My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
Hi Michael,
The holster is for a 9mm pistol.
The Steyr M1912, also known as the Steyr-Hahn, is a semi-automatic pistol developed in 1911 by the Austrian firm Steyr Mannlicher, based on the mechanism of the Roth–Steyr M1907. It was developed for the Austro-Hungarian Army and adopted in 1912.It was the standard Austro-Hungarian military handgun of World War I.
Here is the one that goes in the holster, it's dated 1916 with Vienna proof marks.
cheers
Tony
Whilst conducting archaeology near Ypres a few years ago I found a cartridge case from a M1912, but better still from a fully automatic M1912 machine pistol. To compound the interest it was securely stratified in a 1916 deposit!
The Bavarian Army bought a load of them from the Austrians for issue to their troops. I wonder if you were digging near a Bavarian unit stationed at Ypres ?
closer photos of the German Officer kit .....
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