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Archive ‘WWII Hot Finds Newsletter’ Category
Monday, November 14, 2016
You can be on my watch list is the auction pictured below for the A2 jacket and the pilot's history. It's over $1000 and still climbing.
There are a couple of similar German daggers that are doing well in this block. You can't lose with either of the helmets that I spotted doing well also.
I always kinda wonder when I see some piece of equipment that is essentially a mess of wires doing well. The radio piece that is included below is one of those. If you like Japanese swords then I've got that covered here too.
At first glance the German helmet below looks like it's in the wrong category but it's advertised as a World War I piece. Other listings in this block are 100 years old and doing well.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
No blockbusters today in the United States block although I always like uniforms with insignia like the one pictured below from the 70th Tank Battalion that participated in D-Day. I don't credit that plane spotter model to WWII but hey it's listed in the category so go for it.
The nicest thin in this block is also being sold out of Poland by a seller with a feedback rating of just #16. To bid or not to bid on the pictured German uniform tunic. There is also another smock pictured below that is over $400. On that one the seller is from France but has a little more experience on eBay.
Well you learn something new everyday. I would not have thought much about the wall clock pictured below until I saw the bidding action and read the description. There must be a niche collecting market for British clocks? This one is over $300 and is still going at auction.
The title of the oddly shaped below below refers to it as a "smatchet". I admit I had to google that term and turns out it means a heavy short sword. I don't know if that's what I'd choose to call that piece but it looks like it saw some action in the jungle so maybe that's a search term for some collectors.
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Thursday, November 3, 2016
A real winner in this block is the 82nd Airborne uniform pictured below. You know I don't usually list many medals in this block. It's not that the Good Conduct medal below is outstanding but it's just not that often that they make the cut with bidding and price for the newsletter.
The complete uniform below is advertised as being from the German mountain troops. It's over $400 in active bidding so that makes it a "Hot Find" as I identify them for picking the best listings today. I also thought the collar tabs were pretty special seeing as they have 33 bids!
You can tell by the items in this block that this is kinda of my catch-all block for the WWII category. You can find an Italian officer visor cap, a Japanese sword and a Soviet medal among others.
The WWI block is always fun to finish with because in just under a dozen picks I get to summarize an entire category. One that stands out today is the British soldier statue. The seller shares the neat history of this piece and that alone is worth clicking over there.
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Monday, October 31, 2016
It's not hard to recommend some of the top listings featured in the United States category today. Take for example the A-2 jacket. The seller is having some fun as he got a lowball offer from an interested party and posted it for all to see. He's pretty smart because the offer was $600 and it's now over $1400 in bidding. Too bad we can't see the User ID to see where the lowball came from but he got shamed nonetheless.
A really interesting auction here is for the grouping of field post letters. The seller has them all translated and that comes with the auction so you can really see and read the battlefield correspondence even if your German is not very good.
There is a don't miss auction tucked in the left nav bar that you can make out. It's an early Luftwaffe pilot's jacket selling with bidding just under $500 at this point. I have seen similar ones with buy-it-now prices in the four digits.
Don't miss the great American uniform listing pictured below because it's getting alot of attention from collectors on eBay. The listings in this block are all featured in the WWI category.
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Friday, October 28, 2016
For some reason paratroopers are dominating this United States block today. From the great 503rd Parachute Infantry patch to the named grouping linked in below. I also spotted a nice listing that included a D-Day gas mask.
Today the German block in the newsletter features four different auctions on helmets. What might be the oddest item that I included today is the silver crumb pan and broom. Hey it was listed in the WWII category so it's game!
Thank goodness the seller of the Brodie helmet below included a picture from the war because when you first see it that's an odd piece. Some of you might like that British commando blouse pictured below. Other items are from Japan and other actors in the war.
My favorite listing in this WWI only block is the war bonds poster warning to keep those red boots off our shores. However, if you want to see a really high flying auction that might slip over $1k in bidding click on the Scottish Kings Bodyguard sword below.
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