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Best Selling WWII Items on eBay This Week

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

You know something is good when three bidders chase it over $5,000 and the last day sees the final sale price spike by fifteen hundred dollars! Its been a long time since I've seen a blade not made in Japan sell for north of $7k on eBay so you might want to check out the classic V-42 Stiletto to see what all the fuss is about. Is it just coincidence that the same model of knife rang in at the #2 position this week albeit with considerably less fanfare. With edged weapons taking the top 3 spots you know one of them had to be a Japanese sword and this one represents that niche well. But perhaps the most intriguing item is the battle flag from a US Navy submarine. That is what I would put on my wall if I wanted to spend a couple of grand on a piece of history. The bomber jacket reminds me of a fad in the late 1980s when these jackets were the coolest things for teens to wear - my high school sweetheart had one that I would sometimes "borrow" from her.

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Bids	eBay Item Title - Link to Auction	Image Link
30	Japanese Sword Samurai Tsuba WW2 KAIGUNTO NAVY KATANA
15	WWII V-42 STILETTO ORIGINAL MINT CONDITION !!
15	V-42 BY CASE WW2 ORIGINAL WITH ORIGINAL LONG SCABBARD
17	Japanese Samurai Sword Tsuba - WW2 GENDAITO KATANA 1942
2	ULTRA RARE WWII USN SUBMARINE KILL FLAG TO USS CABRILLA
28	H WW II Aero A-2 Flight Jacket 46 Painted Patches + Log

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Cutting Their Way To The Top! Japanese WWII

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Would you start a Japanese Samurai Sword at a minimum bid of just $1? Well I guess if you were confident that it was going to sell for over $2k with thirty bids then maybe - why not!?. This Top-5 list has a little bit of diversity in it considering that it includes a pair of navy binoculars and a tanker's helmet. If you take a look at the bidding pattern of the Navy binoculars you will see that it was just two bidders willing to take the auction over $1500 and the winning bidder came in with a pair of strong shots in the last 25-seconds to steal the win. My question about the helmet is did this really offer much protection? I guess if you were inside of a hot armored vehicle maybe it wasn't as important that your helmet be able to stop a bullet.

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Bids	eBay Item Title - Link to Auction	Image Link
30	Japanese Sword Samurai Tsuba WW2 KAIGUNTO NAVY KATANA
9	WWII JAPANESE NAVY SHIP BINOCULARS VERY LARGE & CLEAN
5	WW II Japanese Officer Samurai Sword Ichihara Nagamitsu
1	WW II Japanese Navy Binoculars
22	WWII JAPANESE ARMY SUMMER TANKER'S HELMET & GOGGLES

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Best of the Motherland! Top Selling Russian WWII Items

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

I don't know that I've ever written about an auction in this blog that registered 65 bids like the "Russian rare medal" did to place #1 in the best selling items in the Russian subcategory of WWII eBay. If you take a closer look you will see that 22 of those bids came on the last day of the auction including a pair of insurance bids from the eventual winning bidder. Its ironic because several of the other listings in this Top-5 list didn't see any bidding competition to speak of. The two unique medals that sold were both offered by the same seller with an incredible minimum bid price of $0.99!

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Bids	eBay Item Title - Link to Auction	Image Link
65	Russian rare medal
1	WWII Soviet ORDER OF ALEXANDER NEVSKY TYPE 3 28030
28	Russian rare order
1	Authentic WWII 1935 russiam PE sniper scope
1	ORIGINAL SOVIET RUSSIAN RARE 1936 Ssh36 Ssh-36 HELMET