Post Your Oddities

MedalFuhrer

TransplantedDub wrote: »

The Beret badge is the CBSI scouts badge.
The rank flashes, was not aware of one star rank, thought it started at two star pte....anyone know? I should, I myself was in the FCA, but I went two, three pte to Cpl then. Love the button stick, had one lost it.( yes...I'm old enough to have had brass buttons..:rolleyes:.)...almost looks like they banged them out on the badge die, wish I could find another

Thanks for the info. They are interesting to have.

Morlar

This is an oddity I picked up a while back, it came in between a lot of German WWI & WW2 documents and propaganda paperwork. It is a Russian-Japaneese War related document :



It is a Russian, writing in English to a German.

Signed by the superintendant of 2nd Pacific Ocean squadron of fleet captain second rank Alexandr Gustavovich von-Witte lost in Tsushima battle.

Apparently 'Johannisberger' :



was a German coal ship supplied 2nd Pacific Ocean squadron of fleet.

citizen_p

Not really an oddity, but the only one I have.
A portrait of what I believe is a Tim Mahony from Tralee circa 1940, looks to be Cavalry(Beret, Tam-o'Shanter?), came with a couple of Irish army manuals. The photo isn't great quality.

phaethon

Here is one pair, what I don't own anymore.

Got them as an extra over the deal from Scandinavia (at this time I collected mainly German/Soviet Union stuff from WW2). Pasador top suggests some Spanish speaking country, so I let them go. However, first I put them up on OMSA forum, in order to find out what they are exactly - no one knowed.

As a odd item it was.... turned out year later pretty scarse set what was in use only short time in Argentina Navy. Regrget my decision now:pac:.

phaethon

Morlar wrote: »

This is an oddity I picked up a while back, it came in between a lot of German WWI & WW2 documents and propaganda paperwork. It is a Russian-Japaneese War related document :



It is a Russian, writing in English to a German.

Signed by the superintendant of 2nd Pacific Ocean squadron of fleet captain second rank Alexandr Gustavovich von-Witte lost in Tsushima battle.

Apparently 'Johannisberger' :



was a German coal ship supplied 2nd Pacific Ocean squadron of fleet.

I JUST LOVE IT!!!:eek:

R.Dub.Fusilier

not that odd but made from a brass artillery shell.

HerrScheisse

Very cool

citizen_p

great bit of trench art you got there...

breadandjam

Mousey- wrote: »

Not really an oddity, but the only one I have.
A portrait of what I believe is a Tim Mahony from Tralee circa 1940, looks to be Cavalry(Beret, Tam-o'Shanter?), came with a couple of Irish army manuals. The photo isn't great quality.

The cavalry cap is called a Glengarry and is still worn by Irish Cavalry Squadron troopers