https://www.ebay.com/itm/186414946204?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20250324084321%26meid%3D779720bd2c1d4721bb77503977787eaf%26pid%3D101949%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26itm%3D186414946204%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DRecentlyViewedItemsV2WithMLRPboosterAndUpdatedFeatures_BP&_trksid=p4375194.c101949.m162918&_trkparms=parentrq%3Ade56be041960ad59e8c3b37cffff712a|pageci%3A2fe75e36-331f-11f0-9291-d26120fab424|iid%3A1|vlpname%3Avlp_homepage   This is the dialer that was fielded by the GDR to work with the FF-63 field phone.  It uses the existing field phone's handset so I'm not sure why they have this one in the picture.   The OB/ZB one mounts different than the actual one designed for the FF-66m

Thanks a lot. Do you know any internet ressources where I can find out more about the serial number?

Heh, reminds me of the time my dad gave me a box of spent cases from a friend of his, who had heard that I was into militaria. Between the bands of spent 5.56 and 7.62 NATO....there was an 1918 Mills bomb! Nope! Nope! Efff nope! But thanks for thinking of me. 😅   The replica tag came in from Eric Bion from Totoenjeep! A couple of small nails later.....👍        

I was sorting through boxes of wartime ephemera yesterday and found this drawing . It came from a Home Guard collection of paperwork. No idea why it has turned 90 degrees, just can't seem to correct it.   Also a postwar use for grenade casings, turned into money box.

Found the image two more times. The Coast Guard at War/ Sicily - Italy Landings/ X Sicily - Italy/ PART I p.22 Caption: "U.S. COAST GUARDSMEN TAKE A PARTY OF NAVY MEN ASHORE TO SET UP A NAVAL OPERATING BASE ON THE SICILIAN SHORE." (No photo credit.)   Naval History and Heritage Command 26-G-1830 Sicily Invasion, July 1943   "A Coast Guard manned LCVP takes a Navy Beach Party to the Sicily Beachhead." credit: National Archives.   Each of these images are cropped differently. Remember Me, your picture is the only one that has reference numbers. Is there anything you can add for context, like any writing on the back, or where it was found?   Note the fellow that has his hand to his face has a cross painted on the front of his helmet above U.S.N.

Does anyone know the approximate value of this pistol?  It's a Merwin & Hulbert/Hopkins & Allen Pocket Army (Caliber Winchester 1873).  7-inch barrel, cylinder does not rotate when hammer is cocked. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. 

I appreciate the info!

Very likely did serve in the US military during the WW2 days and then was either just handed over to a friendly foreign country or shipped to a friendly country post war as “military assistance”. Greece, Germany, Denmark, the Dutch and Italy all were supplied with Garands post war. The numbering on this bayonet looks WAY better than any numbering I’ve seen on a Greek return FWIW.  I would be inclined to think it came from another source country.

Thank you for your answer.

. History repeats itself sixty years later.    An article from today's newspaper featuring a stock photo of surplus store inert grenade.  And a memory of doing the same thing sixty years ago ( aged 10 ) at junior school with a 1940 Mills grenade my mothers younger sister took home with her from the munitions factory she worked at.            Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 17 2O25.    ….