Wow what a nice group.

This particular detector has been waterproofed at some point in its life.

Spalding 1898 contract belt. mounted version. The Spaldings used heavy 3 brass round wires for fastening and waist adjustment; an open c-catch for fastening flanked by a pair of sliding adjusters. The belt plate is not correct, its a typical modern era collector 'mash up' to make the belt look much cooler than it originally made and worn.

In 1895 the army issued new cartridge belts for the Krag rifle and carbine. What you have is the mounted or cavalry belt, just as it was issued and used. The belts were dark blue from 1895 to 1900 at which time the army switched to the tan belts which were better suited to the khaki field uniform. The c-catch is the original system and the way these were worn. The army dropped the US plates in 1895 when the new 30/40 belts and Krags were issued. That book sadly is full of errors including collector / dealer 'put together' belt & plates combos never actually worn. 

Hi Thanks for the info. Really appreciate your input🙂

The bag is the rubber ear pieces for the headset all nos 1957. There are still has all the earth pieces which are still plyable.

The box and certain components have been repainted directly over the WWII paint and stenciling wich is visible from some angles through the current paint which im guessing is from right around 1957 all parts are stamped signal corp as well the WWII stenciling shows this as a signal corp detector throughout its life. Some bonuses are the WWII dated GM vacuum tubes and the other item that is used for finding and removing the mines.

I don't know much about these but it is supposedly a Siam Amulet so Thai not Vietnamese.   So I guess this could have been worn by members of the Thai Queen Cobra or Black Panther Divisions that fought in South Vietnam.   

. More photos 1970's Jeep wrecks   Note in the first photo the saplings have started beside the Jeep, twisted up under the hoop bar and continued upwards,  the side panel is badly rotted where the shovel would normally sit.    The second is a Ford GP engine and a carburettor   The third shows the British airborne quick release on the steering wheel for removal for glider use   The forth shows the square painted area featuring the British Airborne ' Pegasus ' sign    The fifth the King inspecting a British airborne Bantam Jeep featuring the large British airborne Pegasus plaque.             Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 24 May  2O26.   ..    

There is an article in the 1988 April-June ASMIC Trading Post titled U.S. Navy Seal and UDT Insignia starting on page 63.  On the upper left of page 66 is a drawing of this patch with the added numeral 3 just below the tail with a tentative identification of UDT-3.  I can't post the image due to copyright issues.  The author of this article wasn't sure of this identification and felt that more than likely former members of UDT-3 might have adopted this patch as their insignia after the war by having the numeral 3 embroidered below the tail of the sea horse.  So I have been looking for one ever since and have not been able to find one.  I have come across three variants of this patch.  The first is the edge cut patch made by Gemsco (Photo 1 & 2).  The second (Photo 3 & 4) is also edge cut but the green sea horse lacks the yellow or black eye and black detail.  The third one (Photo 5 & 6) is an early flattened merrowed edged variant produced or distributed out of Florida.