Here are a few for this thread, including my version of the 808th Engineer Bn.    

Here is another link on the EFMB Billyh https://www.eielson.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/3529674/354th-mdg-airman-is-first-to-receive-army-medical-badge/

Just to echo what has been said, nice display, great collection. Always nice to see US cavalry items.

Here is my favorite wheel I own. This has been posted before but I think it belongs here also.    This is the original wheel from the USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72. It was presented to the Lincoln’s first Executive Officer (XO) at the completion of his tour.     

Yah, they seem very strong. This is the most heavy duty set I own, hopefully won’t need to use them but I’m not opposed to it. Super happy with this pickup and even better when it’s free!

Fantastic collection! Always love to see Indian wars items

Back in the 1960s, Surplus City, a store that was south of Lawton, OK, sold those cutters for about $7.00 and purchased two of the tools.  I still have them today and they have been used for more than cutting wire.  Small screws and some nails can be cut with them as well.

One thing that people tend to forget is that the USAAF and USAF were present in England from pretty much 1942 until... today!  Many of the same bases in the UK were/are used from the cold war up to now.  SO, it isn't too far of a stretch to assume that the same English companies supplying the B-24/B-17 bomber crews with insignia in 1944 were also supplying the guys flying B-52H Stratofortress bombers out of Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford Airbase today.   If you look at the back of this wing, it has a sort of "crimped" effect around the feathers and bottom part, with some "cliché" patterns behind the shield.  You can compare it to a WWII vintage Gaunt wing (which has a slightly different pattern.   I have seen these later USAF wings with American or British-style findings. Once or twice, I have even seen them in clutch back.

Yes, I think that there would be a market for a high quality reproduction of the early M1905 scales.  The earliest ones are now well over 100 years old and very scarce on the loose.    The key is "high quality" as collectors are very fussy about details (I include myself).  Thus, a so-so repro would not meet with the demand or collector approval.  Example:  the Sarco scales which most of us agree are awful.  See the image below for the Sarco scales taken from their website.     The materials (walnut properly stained and shaped with routing "ribs/ridges" intact) and the screw and escutcheons would need to all be first class.  Additionally, in order to meet the objections of some shouting "fakery" and that these reproductions in the future would be confused with originals it would be important to mark them permanently as reproductions.  I suggest doing so on the underside of the scales with the maker's initials and year date.   The amount of time, materials and work involved in creating a high quality reproduction might make this project economically unfeasible.  However I think the demand is there and if the reproductions could be produced and priced attractively (maybe $75 or so)  then I think they would sell themselves.  Again, from a collector's standpoint the keys would be creating a high quality reproduction, properly marked as a repro and at an attractive price point.   The images below of an original M1905 Springfield Armory 1906 dated bayonet in my collection illustrate what the aspiration should be, in my opinion.   Good luck, and keep us informed if this project ever takes flight.   Regards, Charlie  

It’s not a very common thing to find.