Persian Gulf Command Posted January 15, 2019 Share #1 Posted January 15, 2019 This item is on eBay and with 5 days left it is at $430. w/ 39 bids. #163483896294 Are these that rare? If you are a bidder or not could you educate me? I am not interested at this price so I will not be Bidding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron bender Posted January 15, 2019 Share #2 Posted January 15, 2019 Looks like a $100-$150 Mk2 with a $25-$50 fuze. Sometimes I wonder if one bidder thinks other bidders are seeing something they don't, hence increasing the bidding to ridiculous amounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray42 Posted January 16, 2019 Share #3 Posted January 16, 2019 I was following this piece, however stopped because it got out of my price range. If I had to guess the price is high because there are so few grenades regularly come up for sale, especially on ebay so if two people who got in a bidding war knew of no other place to purchase one they might drive the price up. Additionally the pull fuzes are not that common either, I was bidding on one in nicer condition that was on ebay and it sold for over 100$. Probably just two people who both see this as something really cool and feel like they have to have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverplate Posted January 16, 2019 Share #4 Posted January 16, 2019 A MKII I was watching on ebay recently went over $450 before the auction ended. Lots of bidders with lots of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colt thompson Posted January 16, 2019 Share #5 Posted January 16, 2019 Didn't realize Ebay allowed grenade sales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray42 Posted January 16, 2019 Share #6 Posted January 16, 2019 Didn't realize Ebay allowed grenade sales They don't really, most of the time they get taken down after being posted but some slip under the radar if you are lucky. My guess is the ones that make it to the end of the auction get mistaken for fakes and don't get reported. There actually seem to be a lot of grenades coming out of former Russian countries where they have been found left from WW2, I believe you just need to know the proper key word to find what is hidden on the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
917601 Posted January 16, 2019 Share #7 Posted January 16, 2019 Realized price is no surprise.Vintage US boobytrap devices bring top dollar due to rarity. This one looks like the earlier model? I would not pay that amount as I have seen these complete fuze devices go for about $100-150+ ( the adapters on the bottom are very hard to find),most do not realize how or what they were used for...not just grenades, but anti tank and anti personell mines...in the Ordnance field, knowledge is everything....and ordnance has become a highly collectible field due to its nature ( designed to kill the enemy- win wars- used only once, and most examples destroyed long ago when it's " use by date" is expired). Happy hunting, many deals still out there if you know what to look for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
917601 Posted January 16, 2019 Share #8 Posted January 16, 2019 Keep your eyes out for these sleeping beauties. US booby trap devices-the prong type brings a lot of cash when it's time to sell, but why would you ever sell one knowing the scarcity, and how and why it was used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
917601 Posted January 16, 2019 Share #9 Posted January 16, 2019 A past post from a savy collector. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/237922-wwii-us-booby-trap-and-firing-devices-my-updated-collection/page-2 Fascinating to the twisted ordnance collectors mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
917601 Posted January 16, 2019 Share #10 Posted January 16, 2019 ...another employment reference for our booby trap fuzes, used on mines and of course a really nice " anti- removal" technique...note: WW2 dated mines becoming really, really scarce.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambob Posted January 17, 2019 Share #11 Posted January 17, 2019 As the "Savy" collector called out by 917601 above, I say Thank You!! The link provided by 917601 to a topic I started should give you a good understanding of these booby trap mechanisms. Make sure you go back to page 1 and read from the beginning to get the maximum amount of info about this subject. Being an Engineer really gave me an appreciation of these cleverly designed and deadly devices. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persian Gulf Command Posted January 23, 2019 Author Share #12 Posted January 23, 2019 This item sold for $422.00 Could it be because the Pull Fuse was WW2 Period and not Post-War? Check this site: American Boobytrap Mechanisms http://tgrm.foxed.ca/boobytraps/Americanbt/USBT.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccyooper Posted January 24, 2019 Share #13 Posted January 24, 2019 The seller sold similar fuses, pressure and pull, that sold in the $100 range so it appears that the grenade body was over valued IMHO. If I remember correctly the fuses even had better paint and nomenclature markings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefense1 Posted February 1, 2019 Share #14 Posted February 1, 2019 Keep your eyes out for these sleeping beauties. US booby trap devices-the prong type brings a lot of cash when it's time to sell, but why would you ever sell one knowing the scarcity, and how and why it was used?image.jpeg I've probably got about a dozen of each of those plus a bag of the adapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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