Bob Hudson Posted July 16, 2008 Share #201 Posted July 16, 2008 I'm looking at buying a pair of WWI USMC dogtags. I was wondering what would be a fair price to pay, they've asked me to make an offer. thanks! A "fair price" or "good price?" As a buyer you are not an appraiser so I'd suggest offering what you are comfortable paying. I often hear sellers say "So what do you think these are worth?" and I want to reply "Pay me $100 an hour and I'll do an appraisal." A set of USMC dog tags dated Nov. 1918 sold on bay for $43.00. LJMilitaria.com has a bunch listed but no prices posted. An Australian ebay seller recently sold a set of 1921 USMC tags for $71.00 US. I found another set on ebay described as "Original WWI Marine USMC dog tags Co.L., 11th Regt 1918" that was sold by a Canadian ebayer for $70.99 US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teufelhunde.ret Posted July 16, 2008 Share #202 Posted July 16, 2008 You can also do a finshed auction search for the last 30 days to see what prices have been realized. IMO, much would depnd on who they were issued to... you know the cook, baker, candle stick maker routine. Not everyone carried a rifle. s/f Darrell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brig Posted July 16, 2008 Share #203 Posted July 16, 2008 they complete that small WWI group I posted earlier in the Groupings forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USMCR79 Posted July 16, 2008 Share #204 Posted July 16, 2008 I have seen them as high as $125 at shows Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted July 16, 2008 Share #205 Posted July 16, 2008 I have seen them as high as $125 at shows Bill I did some ebay searching and the highest recent sale as $84 for a guy who was in fact in France in 1918. There was a pair sold for $29 - belonged to a guy who was Marine in WWI and died as a civilian merchant marine in WWII. I would say Brig, that was with a lot of other collectibles, the dog tags have a fairly broad range from about $30-40 on up to $80-120 and that something in the $70 range is fair to buyer and seller, but if you can get them for $40 you're still within fair market value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brig Posted July 16, 2008 Share #206 Posted July 16, 2008 I offered 50, we'll see how it goes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted July 21, 2008 Share #207 Posted July 21, 2008 I found this at an antique shop the other day, and in looking up the various types of army dog tags, didn't see this exact type represented. It most closely resembles the "first type" with the exception of the religious denomination. The second type has the tetanus date, which this one doesn't have.The websites I saw, made no mention of any type of "transition" types. Has anyone here observed this exact format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted July 21, 2008 Share #208 Posted July 21, 2008 They used this next of kin tag up until 1943 then changed over.The story I have heard is that the next of kin was removed as if captured they didnt want the enemy to have any acces to family contact.Maybe Braddocks book on tags can shed some light on the variation.I normally see the early tags in a brass material as yours.I have seen a few in bright metal. RON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOB K. RKSS Posted July 21, 2008 Share #209 Posted July 21, 2008 Next of Kin address Dog Tags were issued INTO 1943. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPage Posted July 21, 2008 Share #210 Posted July 21, 2008 I was just inquiring as to the format, i.e., it doesn't conform to the styles I've seen described. It seems like the first style except it has religious denomination which the first style apparently didn't have. Also, this guy entered the service in '43 after the second style was in use. http://home.att.net/~steinert/us_army_ww2_dog_tags.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captainofthe7th Posted July 21, 2008 Share #211 Posted July 21, 2008 I'm not sure. It looks like a late Vietnam tag as the lettering is still indented and not raised, theres no "notch", and they used the SSN not an ASN. That's all I can tell you.. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captainofthe7th Posted July 22, 2008 Share #212 Posted July 22, 2008 http://mooremilitaria.com/dog_tags.htm It is the "Vietnam Style 3" it's the same format used today. It could even be current, I guess the letters are still sunken in. It depends on where they are made to get the raised variation. It's a good tag... Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chukpike Posted July 26, 2008 Share #213 Posted July 26, 2008 I know no harm is intended but a veterans SSN and name do not belong on the Internet. SSNs became service numbers in January 1970 and most veterans are probably still alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted July 26, 2008 Share #214 Posted July 26, 2008 I know no harm is intended but a veterans SSN and name do not belong on the Internet. SSNs became service numbers in January 1970 and most veterans are probably still alive. We have altered that to blur out the SSN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beezman Posted July 31, 2008 Share #215 Posted July 31, 2008 You can try the social security death index: http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ It might also be a joke since Hugo Chavez is the president of Venezuela, and not very fond of Americans. A dog tag named to Fidel Castro would ring a bell as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenL Posted August 1, 2008 Share #216 Posted August 1, 2008 Here's two interesting tags I got recently. The first looks to be all hand stamped on a normal brass tag. I love the uniqueness of it. The Navy tag I couldn't pass up because of the name. He's lucky he was in the service before 1969 or I'm sure he'd have been the butt end of many jokes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camonick Posted September 10, 2008 Share #217 Posted September 10, 2008 These tags belonged to my wife's Grandfather. USNR WWII Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camonick Posted September 10, 2008 Share #218 Posted September 10, 2008 ...And These belonged to my Grandfather on my Dad's side. US Army WWII Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulyp99 Posted September 10, 2008 Share #219 Posted September 10, 2008 Here are the few I Have, First is my grandfathers, the second is my uncles and lastly a pair I picked up on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtbarnes44 Posted September 21, 2008 Share #220 Posted September 21, 2008 I just can't figure the branch of arms of that dog tags necklace found in France. The owner is not on the NARA list. May-be someone can find something about him. Thanks a lot for your help. You will notice that the middle name letter is not at the same place on each tag.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenL Posted September 21, 2008 Share #221 Posted September 21, 2008 I tried searching for his name on google but couldn't find anything relating to his service, only a lot of genealogy type stuff. All I could tell you from the tag is that he was an Army draftee. There's nothing wrong with the position of the middle initial changing. I have sets of tags where the service numbers don't even match up, it's just human error. Did you actually find these on the ground somewhere or were they purchased? It's a nice set of early tags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicolas75 Posted September 22, 2008 Share #222 Posted September 22, 2008 the private purchase blue & white cord is for Infantry branch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Andrews Posted September 23, 2008 Share #223 Posted September 23, 2008 An Infantry cord would be light blue, no white. This may be faded Chemical Corps, blue and yellow, or just a blue and white cord -- perhaps a shoelace -- with no branch connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted October 10, 2008 Share #224 Posted October 10, 2008 A while ago, I mentioned these tags on the Pinned Dog Tags discussion. They belonged to Pvt Richard C. Perry and were found by my brother while metal detecting in the Kaiserslautern area in Germany. He passed them onto me when we were both stationed at RAF Mildenhall in the late 1990's. Looking at them at the time, I wondered what the story was and why they were lost. Well, after researching them a bit, I found out that Richard Perry died of wounds on 19 April, 1945. With the location of where they were found, I figured that he might of belonged to the 80th ID, as that unit moved through the area in late March 1945. Well, I got his IDPF back today, after 3 months of waiting, and found out that he actually belonged to D Co, 7th IR, 3rd ID and died of wounds in Hallstadt, North of Nurnberg. The 3rd ID had been assaulting Nurnburg when he was wounded. Richard C. Perry was born 4 April, 1925 and had just turned 20 when he passed on. He was originally from Manhatten and had a brother John and a sister Isabelle. His Mother Anna Perry requested that her son be buried at the Long Island Military Cemetary in Farmingdale, NY. Now, how could his dogtags be found 100 miles West of Nurnburg? Well, I can answer that now. He was originally buried at Bensheim, Germany, just North of Mannheim. This is very close to the location my brother found the dogtags. He was subsequently moved to the military cemetary at St. Avold, France. So, somewhere in this movement, his tags were lost. That said, they were never included in with the documentation, so they must of been somewhere in his uniform. Thanks for reading. It is sobering reminder of just how tragic war is. Now to find his family..... -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamski Posted October 10, 2008 Share #225 Posted October 10, 2008 The IDPF is quite a thick document. Here is the most important page, IMHO. -Ski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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