My Collection

Spare bulbs storage block for Headlamp box

Spare bulbs storage block for Headlamp box with 11x 6V bulbs–$83 Most of the survived ‘Beleuchtungsgerät für Strichplatte’ boxes been emptied the partitions, even with metal partitions the wooden block at the middle was useless to the new owners. For any restoration project, this block is a must. Related Items: Stencil for Headlamp Box http://Stencil…
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Tramp grinders – a piece of war or nonsense?

Thank you for Fred Kvn to share with us this article which cracked the misty of the Trump Bakelite coffee Grinder. Here is the translation from the article in Czech on 2012. http://kvhwurm.cz/mlynky-tramp-valecny-kus-nebo-nesmysl/?fbclid=IwAR1zAykoBMQyoLu8jiFLsi6Erck7VI0gyI4MjVG0KdnVMWcIDOtaucPtHJM Tramp grinders – a piece of war or nonsense? A few years ago, a Bakelite grinder appeared on the auction server Aukro.cz…
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Tramp Coffee Grander and personal effects

B. O. Reisekaffeemühle Nr. 702 “Tramp” von ca. 1939-1950 Since post on my Page, most of the feedback are it is a post war item, but ‘Stefan Haüser’ said it is not the case, but he shut down his site “Die Nachrichtentruppe.de”. Anyone has the article saved? Below is an article from Old Coffee Grinder.com…
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Italian Coffee Grinder Restoration by Home Made Metal Paste

When the grinder arrived, the round grinder cylinder can’t pull out, as the housing crushed some course by the trip and majority is the locking flap crushed through the thin sheet metal. The 1mm thick housing is not as robust as the German gasmask cylinder even it looks alike, but Italian product can’t match German…
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Italian / German coffee grinder ‘Kaffeemühle’

Not much information of this cool looking coffee grinder, usually quiet expensive but lucky to found it in good price. Not for individual obviously, but for field kitchen or cook house, dimension 25×15×13 cm One of the seller has the following description: *Camp and trench coffee grinder of the Royal Italian Army, model 1905, made…
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Richtkreis 31 (RK31) Leather Carrying Cases–2

One of the less known pouch is the lamination gear pouch for RK31 Lucky enough that I have chance to own three of these pouches: RK31 Lighting Gear Pouch group. Left to right. 1938 brown leather. 1936 dark brown leather. 1942 black Presstoff.

My Panzer Headsets and Throatmics collection

Over the years my collection of the Panzer Headsets is growing, started from relics Dfh.b to perfect Dfh.b then the Late war 44 Dfh.b and the most rare Dfh.d on last year. Was only concentrated on the most common throatmic Kmf.b, never dream of owning the prewar Kmf.2 and the Kmf.c.     Everything started…
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Richtkreis 31 (RK31) Leather Carrying Cases–1

Richtkreis 31 Leather Carrying Case (Cavalry?) Over the year picking up these leather pouches, some was in poor conditions and some been converted and stripped of the partitions for other use. Cleaned and restored one by one and link up together to form a system for the RK31. It is fun to carrying it when…
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Laternezubehörkasten Bakelit

Everything started from this beautiful empty Bakelite box I obtained on winter of 2020, not until further study found I was so lucky to have every metal clamps intact and no crack on Bakelite walls. Again, the German design made perfect but complicated product, this box is a typical case to well protect the fragile…
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Lantern Box 37 (Lat. Kast.37 Pi) Completed

This is a restored box, came empty and deformed, happened to found an incomplete set of replica partition kit from Germany, the most difficult situation was lack of details, eventually all wood works are done, all missing parts been built but the wood I can obtained is not as hard as the Germany made wooden…
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