WW1 British 'BAB Trench Code No.4 May 1917

Rare BAB Trench Code manual No.4 dated May 1917. Handwritten to front cover is ' Officer Comdg RXA A Battery'.
The BAB Code was a compact, officially classified cryptographic codebook used by the British Army during WWI & designed by Lt Col Barrington Butler. Issued to signallers and commanding officers, it allowed troops to quickly encode and transmit tactical messages over vulnerable ...  read more

Code: 15640

WW1 British Wounded Mans Kit Label 1916

An OHMS tag for attaching to a wounded mans kit , this exaple filled in with name & service number , the form having a date of April 1916.  read more

Code: 15642

Published WW1 German M16 Steel Helmet With Capture Tag - Featured In Stahlhelm By Oliver Lock

WW1 German M16 steel helmet that has a card capture label with handwritten script reading "Hun Coalscuttle'' found along a sunken road near dead Bodies. Ypres Sector Dec 1917' . This helmet features on page 191of Oliver Locks superb WW1 German helmet book ' Stahlschutzhelme' . Still with much of its origina green factory paint it has leather liner band to interior with three pad holders the two...  read more

Code: 15629

WW2 British Royal Tank Regiment Beret 1944

Black tankers beret made by 'BERET INDUSTRIES LTD 1944 ' & with broad arrow marking underneath. Size 71/8. War Department inspectors code 'M' for the year 1944.  read more

Code: 15630

WW1 German Ersatz ' Filzhelme' (Felt Pickelhaube ) Of Prussia From Dragoon Regiment 14

I am very pleased to be able to offer a fabulous recently acquired ersatz felt pickelhaube with name tag to an 'Ersatz' Squadron of ' Kurm Drag. Regt Nr.14' ( Kurmarkisches Drag. Regt 14 ) . Although cavalry troops received their own Dragoon helmets these were still in short supply & so most only received the standard ersatz infantry issues such as seen here.
Ersatz felt pickelhaubes wer...  read more

Code: 14674

WW1 Austro-Hungarian German Made Steel Helmet

An exceptional example of an Austro-Hungarian steel helmet that was a US soldiers bring back from Italy . The helmet itself is a German pressed shell that was supplied to the A-H Government . The A-H Army was slow to adopt a steel helmet and thus German was to supply many prior to the domestic production could make any impact . German helmets were either supplied a shell to be finished in A-H d...  read more

Code: 15545

***RARE*** WW1 Italian Body Armour

A rare piece of WW1 Italian Body Armour complete with swivel covered peep hole , leather securing straps & swivel legs to rear.
Italy experimented with a large number of Body Armour variants as the Great War progressed the body shield 'Ansaldo' made by Societa Anonima Italiana & the armoured waistcoat of Fariselli by the Astori Company in Milan being two such examples. This shield follo...  read more

Code: 15489

WW1 German 'Prussian Garde' M15 Pickelhaube

A very nice & original 'Prussian Garde' pickelhaube with grey steel fittings of the M15 model , the front plate has never been off.
Immediately apparent on this piece is the wear & correlation of its strikingly detailed front plate imprinted through time onto the leather of the helmet. All the patina throughout matches the rest of the helmet with leather liner tongues in very good order...  read more

Code: 15485

WW1 German Second Model 'Sappenpanzer' Trench Armour

A rare & totally original complete set of WW1 German trench armour this being the second model coming into service not long after the introduction of the first model in 1916.
An iconic piece of WW1 trench equipment these second types were a slight improvement on the first model allowing better freedom of movement around the armpit area in a firing position. Upon close examination the ar...  read more

Code: 10307

**RARE** British Made German Helmet For Instructional Training 1939

The only one I have ever seen for sale this is the rare early WW2 British made representation of the German helmet used by the British Army for instructional purposes in training films / enemy identification demonstrations etc.
Very crude in its construction it is of heavy steel welded together to make the 'coalscuttle' type shape with decals handpainted on either side representative ...  read more

Code: 15468