Show us yours...again

[Airborne01]

Subject to managements orders here at Race Towers a full clean of the cave has taken place !
I'm still suffering from shock, mainly because I started to enjoy the exercise.This is very worrying because normally I will work until It can't find anything, but this time things were so what in order.Well for me anyway.
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Actually took all the clutter outside off the desk, threw away a load of knackered brushes, sorted lengths of timber and moved them out of the way.
Put short lengths of Balsa into a container. Even cleaned the cave chair !
On good authority I gather the floor will be next, beacons knows what we will find .
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Even bought a new cheap CD player.
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Of course this is not an attempt to gain entry into the TBC
I currently am banned for 5 years for attempting to gain entry the last time .

My Management Team is persona non gratis in my cave, unless she brings tea and sticky buns! Mind you, I am similarly barred from her Knitting room! Dioramas look excellent John!

 

[Neil Merryweather]

My Management Team is persona non gratis in my cave, unless she brings tea and sticky buns! Mind you, I am similarly barred from her Knitting room! Dioramas look excellent John!

My manager is always welcome but she won't climb the ladder.....

 

[Tim Marlow]

Not sure Tim.......have not researched it as of yet........it and the Shako sort of fell into my hands at a garage sale (do you have those in the UK?) some years ago and has been packed away until recently. It has no markings on it but I'm sure it is a standard pattern. definitely enlisted ranks head gear. Rick H.

The shako plate should give you somewhere to start Rick. I’d say it’s late Victorian but I could be miles out. They might well be Franco Prussian war vintage?
We do get similar things to garage sales, called boot sales. The big difference is that instead of you selling from your garage you take all your stuff to a location, such as a sports field, along with other traders, and sell from there. You usually pay a pitch fee to a charity for the privilege.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Shako looks like one of these Rick...

Original Imperial German WWI Prussian M1915 Jäger Enlisted Shako Leather Helmet by Hans Römer - size 57

Original Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent condition Imperial Prussian Jäger enlisted man's Mannschaften (other ranks or EM / NCO) Tschako (Shako). The M1915 was the last model of Tschako issued prior to the move to steel helmets, and replaced the earlier M1895 and M1897 patterns...

www.ima-usa.com

The picklehaube looks to be of similar vintage and origin, the plate is definitely Prussian. Could be a couple of valuable items so might be worth getting them properly researched.

 

[boatman]

My manager is always welcome but she won't climb the ladder.....

HI Neill what this about your SWMBO not climbing the ladder what are you up in the loft then ?
chris

 

[Neil Merryweather]

HI Neill what this about your SWMBO not climbing the ladder what are you up in the loft then ?
chris

That's right Chris see post no 23 on this thread

 

[Neil Merryweather]

HI Neill what this about your SWMBO not climbing the ladder what are you up in the loft then ?
chris

Sorry double post

 

[rtfoe]

Rick, if anyone breaks into your cave while you're in there you'd be spoilt for choice on which knife to use for defence...I would go for the Katana.



Cheers,
Richard

 

[Mini Me]

Hi Richard......"Never take a knife to a Gun fight"! I can't remember where I heard that line, but it has always stayed with me.......seems to make sense if you have a choice in the matter. Rick H.

 

[Mini Me]

Thanks for checking on the headgear Tim.....I just wasn't getting it done and now you have gone and peaked my interest so will have to do some research. Rick H.

 

[therapy]

All these pictures of people's collections has prompted me to dig out my one piece.

This was given to me by my Grandfather when I was around seven years old. He had spent the war years serving in North Africa and Italy. Not sure if he brought this back with him. It's been in my custody now for over fifty years.....



Nick

 

[Airborne01]

All these pictures of people's collections has prompted me to dig out my one piece.

This was given to me by my Grandfather when I was around seven years old. He had spent the war years serving in North Africa and Italy. Not sure if he brought this back with him. It's been in my custody now for over fifty years.....

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Nick

Wow!
A '36 Grenade - often incorrectly called a 'Mills Grenade'! Happy days coaxing them out of the hands of nervous recruits on the throwing range! Are you
certain it's a training grenade? Unscrew the base plate and hope there's not a fuse assembly present!

 

[Mini Me]

Nice souvenir......might have been one your Grandfather tossed himself in practice of course. Rick H.

 

[therapy]

it's always been devoid of internals since I've had it.... not sure if the markings on the base have any significance??







Nick

 

[Tim Marlow]

The most important question is this Nick.....do you still occasionally throw it up the garden and shout “boom”?

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Richard......"Never take a knife to a Gun fight"! I can't remember where I heard that line, but it has always stayed with me.......seems to make sense if you have a choice in the matter. Rick H.

Rick mate, I think that line was from “Untouchables”, just before Connery gets killed!

 

[therapy]

The most important question is this Nick.....do you still occasionally throw it up the garden and shout “boom”?

That made me laugh Tim. When first given it, it seemed massive. These days it feels handily chuckable, but I reckon it could do a fair bit of damage even without blowing up! And I always was pretty rubbish at sports involving throwing something. I'd probably end up demolishing my workshop...

Nick

 

[Jakko]

I think that line was from “Untouchables”, just before Connery gets killed!

That one goes (from memory), “If he pulls out a knife, you pull out a gun. If he puts one of yours in hospital, you put one of his in the morgue.” IIRC it happens sometime before Sean Connery’s character gets killed, when he’s giving Kevin Costner’s character advice on how to take on the Mafia.

 

[Tim Marlow]

That one goes (from memory), “If he pulls out a knife, you pull out a gun. If he puts one of yours in hospital, you put one of his in the morgue.” IIRC it happens sometime before Sean Connery’s character gets killed, when he’s giving Kevin Costner’s character advice on how to take on the Mafia.

No Jakko, this line is later......it goes something like. “ain’t that typical of a thug, to bring a knife to a gun fight”.....then he follows the thug outside and gets killed by another thug with a Tommy gun.....

 

[Airborne01]

The base stamps show type (36 Mk 1), Date of manufacture ('40), and the manufacturers code) I think the Z is an acceptance office code - but not sure on that one! Pity you don't have the spring, striker, release handle and ring - would have made an ace paperweight!