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my latest acquisitions
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Lord Flashheart
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That definitely looks like it means business. From a time when they made things properly !
Edward
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Added the perfect compliment to my USAAF office today! I have been wanting to get a more appropriate office chair for my vintage 1940s WWII AAF office and I found the perfect one! I believe it to be a Stenographer Posture Chair and it has stenciled numbers and marked USAAF on it. weighs about 32 lbs. could be oak, birch or walnut... not sure. only marking on it is "Chair 315" on a metal plate.
ausreenactor
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Amazing find...
Edward
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Ohhh ho ho... Magoo ... You’ve done it again!!
( See what I did there ? A little more TV trivia)
ausreenactor
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On Facebook page now... Full carton..
ausreenactor
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Thinking of taking up a new habit, Couchy?
Have a full colour pack of 'Winnie Blues' from PNG if I get the urge. A 40 pack of cigarettes here is almost $50. Same packet 300kms offshore. $4. Mugs game.....
Edward
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that'll go for big bucks!
ausreenactor
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Someone seriously asked if the seller thought they could still be smoked. Had Pall Mall and Old Gold cartons too...
Edward
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Added two 1942 .50 Cal bullets to my collection. Paid $20 each. not a bad price I think...
-1942 .50 caliber blue tipped M1 incendiary. Headstamped LC 42. Lake City Army Ammunition Plant - Independence, Missouri. operated by Remington
-1942 black tipped M2 .50 caliber armor piercing bullet. Headstamped U 42. Utah Ordnance Plant, Salt Lake City, UT (The Utah Ordnance Plant manufactured 418,344,629 .50 Cal. rounds between February 1942 and December 31, 1943 operated by Remington)
-1942 .50 caliber blue tipped M1 incendiary. Headstamped LC 42. Lake City Army Ammunition Plant - Independence, Missouri. operated by Remington
-1942 black tipped M2 .50 caliber armor piercing bullet. Headstamped U 42. Utah Ordnance Plant, Salt Lake City, UT (The Utah Ordnance Plant manufactured 418,344,629 .50 Cal. rounds between February 1942 and December 31, 1943 operated by Remington)
ausreenactor
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Our new rules dictate (and I use that word specifically) that whole must be drilled in the case for display. Regardless of whether the round is fired or has no primer fitted?
Live round has to be locked away. I like it yiur way!
Live round has to be locked away. I like it yiur way!
Edward
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I was kind of surprised he was able to get away with listing it and then actually mailing it. I'm sure he didn't say what it was
he claimed they are live unfired rounds but I have no idea. I really didn't even care that it was a full whole as I just wanted a WWII dated shell. can I do like Bugs Bunny and hit it with a Hammer to see if its a dud?
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Edward
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B-Man2
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Uhhhh.... give me a call before you do that Ed
Now you need an API ( Armor piercing Incendiary ) and a Tracer round ( red tip).
The fighters carried both so the pilots could see the rounds going out with the tracer rounds and the API would show the impacts with a flash.
( I bet you already knew that)
Now you need an API ( Armor piercing Incendiary ) and a Tracer round ( red tip).
The fighters carried both so the pilots could see the rounds going out with the tracer rounds and the API would show the impacts with a flash.
( I bet you already knew that)
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Edward
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yes I do indeed! I'll keep an eye out for at least the tracer round.wouldn't mind having one of those in the collectionUhhhh.... give me a call before you do that Ed
Now you need an API ( Armor piercing Incendiary ) and a Tracer round ( red tip).
The fighters carried both so the pilots could see the rounds going out with the tracer rounds and the API would show the impacts with a flash.
( I bet you already knew that)
