Thank you for the compliment and advice!

I know people that collect "Funerary" things- caskets, cooling tables, postmortem pics (popular in the late 1800s), urns, etc. Not my thing, but whatever. As long as they don't have me over for dinner...   Radioactive stuff is getting popular with the kids- luminescent stuff, aircraft dials, etc.  "Uranium glass" (what we used to call "Vaseline glass" ) any thing that lights up with a UV light.        

Super tasty lighter! Ichi-Ban !!!

Hi everyone, I recently purchased this Model 1872 Mounted Artillery Officer's Saber. I don't know much about it, but I've heard it's very rare. The information I found suggests it was manufactured by Springfield Armory. Its Saber Knot is strange; it doesn't look like it came from the U.S. Army. I think I've seen it in some National Guard units. What are your thoughts on this saber?

"The only Apple product I can afford is apple juice"   Wade

While researching I came across this Old thread, Noticed this insignia image the 501st C/R GP (501st Communications Recon Group) is not commonly found (at least by me) I figured I would add this Communications Recon Group lighter with Unofficial Insignia to this thread for reference  NOTE the 501 printed right side of Sylvester  

First, great find!  That's a beaucoup cool jacket.    Second, when dealing with paint flecks, I had a paint issue with a Ridgeway cap a few years ago.  Basically, there were a few scattered white spots on it.  I was able to clear the paint spots off by VERY carefully using a needle (don't want to add a hole to the jacket, after all)  to flick the individual particles off.  Keep in mind, I was only dealing with a handful of specks on a heavily-starched cap.  It may not work on the jacket, but it might be worth a try.   Congrats again.

. Hahaaaa Kat,   Some of these wooden ' wartime ' Jeep toys are costing as much as a real Jeep did back in the 1970's .  My first Jeep was 120 pounds, within six months I bought a Slat-Grille Willys for 35 pounds, and none of the next four cost me over 120 / 150., all needing various amounts of work.  Sadly they were all sold before reaching today's prices for Jeeps..   I spotted this WASP photo today which you have probably already seen but it's a great photo of a young pilot in the prime of her life.   Elizabeth L. Gardner 1940.       Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 27 April  2O26.   ..          

It’s set up as a Normandy theatre piece. All kosher kit. I’d like to have done Crete, but that gear is so rare and expensive - $100k for the green jump smock/DD helmet/side zip boots etc….

That is definitely weird! ...Kat