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Haha, I'm sure a little bit won't bother anyone... Unless they're liberals! Eek

NO, You DON'T!

Herzters. The ones your showing us appear to be very old. The elongated finger holes give it away to me. Sure they make fakes but l believe their old. I have had many pairs of brass knuckles now I keep a pair of Sap gloves in the car.

US M1917 Knuckle Knife with its peculiar blade:

I thought that most WW1 ,if not all had pointed knuckles, although these would knock the stuffing out of anyone, the idea was to cause a lot of damage to the face and body, and in effect to either permanently disable an enemy or kill them. Knuckledusters in the UK are a specified weapon, which makes them prohibited to own or sell. Get caught with them and there is no defence, you will be prosecuted and if they are out in a public place, you risk going to prison for 6 months, first offence. I,m not 100% sure but I think they were banned after WW1, but there would have been troops who carried them in WW2, basically as a last resort weapon. If an enemy got that close and you had to use them in a fight then you were up S**t creek without a paddle.

Who me? Nah, doesn't sound like me at all...

I,ll give you a perfect example of this guy, He called round my house one night, and showed me two items, a very nice KM dagger with portapee and a British pith helmet with badge from the Zulu wars. The helmet had a large dent in the top where someone had put something heavy on it. I gave him advice as to how to gently steam the dent out, and the dagger was a very nice etched blade example, I asked him where he got them, his car boot sale where an old lady had sold them to him. He told me he bought both for £50. then he asked me if I wanted to buy the dagger, I said how much, £650, I asked how much for the helmet £500. Now I dont mind paying a fair price for anything, but this guy really got my goat. I told him exactly what I thought of him and never to come round again, yet this guy still stiffs old people at his car boot sales. The only good thing that came out of it was the fact he steamed the helmet too much and completely ruined it. He then tried to blame me when I saw him in the town and said I owed him the full price, I said the only thing I owed him was a smack in the mouth if he did,nt get out of my face. He crosses the road if he sees me walking towards him now. I hate people like this with a vengeance

Hi all You will, I'm sure, recall the replica No 36M grenades I made and posted here a few weeks back. Well, after a bit of help from a friend, (he had just the right tool I needed ), I have now 'upgraded' them. I have removed the wooden dowel used originally to form the striker column and replaced it with a piece of aluminium rod. I shaped the end on a bench grinder, and cut the groove with a file. I then manufactured the spoons from sheet aluminium, using an original as a template, cut them out with a jigsaw, then bent them into the correct shape. I think this has improved them greatly. What do you reckon? Not bad for plaster of paris and Humbrol paints! .

1955 mk3 Lee Enfield Bren gun

...Scarcer than a principled politician... Oops, little bit o' politics there...!!!

As rare as hen's teeth mate...

Literally with lots of @Ham & Jam 's help and advice , ( Thanks Paul) just bought this small but lovely little collection of helmets off the bay, for NOT a lot of money, off to Fife tomorrow morning to collect them. Not got decent pics for now, only the ones off the advert...but will redo plenty...:)

Nice little lot @Norrie, good luck with them

"WELL I,LL BE BUGGERED, THEY,RE GERMANS" My Dad, FRANCE 1940

Thanks @DAK D, will report back tomorrow with details, even if they aint right, still a great bargain ....to me anyway...:)

Well you still find them at WAP so people are still buying them, but whether they know the law or not is another matter

Hi @Norrie, I am sure Lenny will be fine with that Fingers crossed for you, that everything is as it should be on the helmets. D

Any knife incorporating a "duster is illegal in the UK, no matter what period

Wooohoooo, Hope so, but wont know till tomorrow morning, I took them all at face value...for the cost involved, I couldn't do anything else...the guy is selling a couple of WW2 Uniforms as well, if I'm not in the market, I'll get pics from him along with prices, and put them on here if that's ok..he doesnt want to put them on the bay...:) let you guys see what they are like..;)

US M1918 Knuckle Knife with metal scabbard:

IT looks like you got some good helmets and If the paint on that Desert Tommy is original you did really well D

Well said @Davejb !I can only add to that that some units,US and British alike,used "official" or "privately purchased" knuckledusters in WW2.The (rare!) M1917 and M1918 Knuckle Knives was made in great numbers during WW1 and production stopped when the War ended.Many of these knives survived and were stored and used again in WW2! A similar device is said to have been made in Britain and issued only for the D-Day landing..it was a spike bayo with knuckleduster but I've never seen originals..only modern copies! Cheers Manu

That really is a scum bag, What annoyed me so much about my scum bag was that he used to come round and ask me for opinions on values for all the badges he had, which I thought he was a newbie collector, but then I found out he was selling them as fast as I was giving a valuation. I actually asked him for money for my time and valuation once. He thought I was joking, so I stopped helping him, but he kept turning up like a bad penny

Amazing headgear chaps!

That guy sounds like a right c#^*! he'd be walking the other side of the road with me too mate...

Welcome James!

I've got a Brown Bess wall mounted with some brackets i got off ebay for a fiver - just search for gun brackets/wall mounts and you'll get a large selection to choose from.

Oh YES, these are looking like the real thing, I dont think anyone could tell the difference until they picked them up, and even then some would have a problem. Ok which one am I getting then????

very nice!

My old aunt gave me a bunch of family pics now that I am ''old enough'' to be trusted with them...on one of them there is my great grand dad, he was from Alsace (occupied by Prussia from 1871 to 1918) he was therefore German at the time, and posted somwhere in German East Africa (presently Burundi, Tanzania & Rwanda) probably as a professional soldier, he is holding a Gewehr 98, and next to him there is my grand dad who was a kid at the time...My great grand dad came back from Africa when released from duty only to die shortly afterwards from some tropical disease he got there. I also got a pic of my grand dad who was a French soldier in WW2 (since Alsace was then French again)...witnesses of a tumultuous history...After the war my grand dad worked all his life as a potash miner. After his retirement, I spent a lot of time with him when I was a kid, he used german ''liberated'' boots to do his garden, and manufactured a shovel out of a german stahlhelm for manure duty...

Well on the Mills it does say remove before firing, so it can only be for the cup discharger plus the base plate is there as well, so I would think it was a common practise to have these fitted at one time, and perhaps later the idea was scrapped, either way that is a rarity

Thanks Guys, I'm researching my grandfathers Career at the moment so i'll post up some stuff in a while in the meantime this is his medal grouping.

Proper collectors with a sense of humour on here, keyboard warriors, trolls and experten on FB is how I'd class things...

Oops!....here we go...

I declare @Ham & Jam the winner of the April 2016 Caption Competition. Medal ceremony to follow...

You have laws there as well, remind this scumbag that HE is committing an offence of theft, the act might read differently in different countries but basically he is dishonestly appropriating property and also attempting to gain a pecuniary advantage over you and E-Bay are actively assisting him, remind them of that fact as well. You,ve offered to refund his money, he,s refused, that gives you grounds against him. By having this item cleaned he,s altered the description you gave, therefore if its returned you could legally keep his money for ruining your item. You have photographic evidence that is in your favour, plus his admission that it was cleaned after it was sent, E-Bay cannot ignore that. I doubt very much that they want to be involved in a lengthy process of law suits

Someone for sure put it inside. Sounds like it might have been a MKII body though that could be worth something. Im not too familiar with grenades though, only artillery stuff.

Same year as my brenBren

a lot of awesome potos

The above video has the sound and picture modified so the BBC don't remove it from YouTube, because they would. Here's what Battery Sergeant Major Williams really sounds like...

Topographie des Terrors , located on the site of the Gestapo Offices in Berlin, again well worth a visit and free to enter. http://www.topographie.de/en/

http://www.visitoostende.be/en/atlantikwall-openluchtmuseum This was ace pal! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall_Open_Air_Museum