Cool Military Barn Finds

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Wow, very nice Grime! Looks like an early SA dagger with scabbard, 'All for Germany'. The K98 bayonet looks to be in fine shape too.

Certainly keepers. Was your father in WW2? I always wonder how things like this ended up in Colorado!

Kind of tough to get those guys to talk about it, and understandably so.

Thanks for sharing the pictures and tell Dad thanks too!

[Grime]

Wow, very nice Grime! Looks like an early SA dagger with scabbard, 'All for Germany'. The K98 bayonet looks to be in fine shape too.

Certainly keepers. Was your father in WW2? I always wonder how things like this ended up in Colorado!

Kind of tough to get those guys to talk about it, and understandably so.

Thanks for sharing the pictures and tell Dad thanks too!

He was not in WW2, he was stationed in Germany in the 70's and picked these up while there. He has some really cool stuff from Korea that he picked up while stationed there in the 60's, I'll see if I can get some photos of that stuff.
I would love to know the whole story behind all these items.

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This is a U.S. Ordnance Corps 'Pump Vacuum and Pressure' Hand operated pump, built like a tank, has psi gauge and selector switch for vacuum or pressure. Hose tip is gone but works well and has fold-out foot pegs.

Kind of wondering where they would need a hand operated vacuum pump?

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This is a U.S. Ordnance Corps 'Pump Vacuum and Pressure' Hand operated pump, built like a tank, has psi gauge and selector switch for vacuum or pressure. Hose tip is gone but works well and has fold-out foot pegs.

Kind of wondering where they would need a hand operated vacuum pump?

For inflating the fake tanks they used to fool the Nazi during WWII...

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Found in a donation box of Halloween stuff.
USMC WW2 P44 reversible frog skin cammo jacket.
Has a painted yellow disc on the left shoulder (?).

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This is an early German/Austrian Forest or Hunting knife. It's rough but after some gentle rust removal I found the 'double squirrel' Eichkorn marking which should date to WW-1. The blade is also acid etched with scenes of deer and trees. Etching is faint and the blade shows surface rust and old sharpening.
No sheath/scabbard. Note the bizarre guard design of a hooved foot sticking out of a dog's mouth! Metal acorn studs on stag horn grip and scallop scabbard guard. 7-1/4" blade, 12-1/2" overall. These were produced as high-quality presentation pieces and award's that had brass fittings and 'triple etched' polished blades, but this appears to be a less expensive (private purchase?) model with steel fittings and a dash of gold paint here and there.

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Sorry about the screwed up pictures!

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You guys have some really cool stuff!