Now that's a thing of beauty.  Thank you for sharing.

WOW!   RARE and it's beautiful!  Thanks for sharing!   OD

Still thinning down on the collection, but I thought you folks might like to see this one before it goes . One of the approximate 100 .30 Carbines that were presented to officials and execs during, and early post WW2. This one was awarded to a supervisor in the Inland Division of General Motors for exceeding his department's production quota in 1944/45. He was not allowed to bring it to the nursing home after retirement and had grown old so he sold to a friend in Dayton, Ohio where he was from. Original, never fired and in the original cosmoline fabric wrapper. Beautiful wood that has absorbed some of the preservative from the wrapper. Presentation Serial # XE 67. All presentation carbines from Inland were X serial prefix numbers. Quite rare today. Hope you enjoy!

Here's a pretty cool USMC tanker oval that's on it's second round. Pretty sure it represents the M60 series and not M103. Nice that it comes with a belt.  

would you sell the balloon gp thanks

Newbe in WI here.   Came across some military gear and hoping to learn what I got and who might be looking for things.  More questions to come shortly.  🙂

Mikie,   I was hoping that you would post this over here!  Notice how they refer to George Frank (from Detroit no less) as a "Peep" driver and not "Jeep" driver.   It is also neat to see an actual period reference of Peep".   OD

Thanks! And oh yes…was a pain to put on the helmet. Was afraid I was gonna snap it 

It looks like a good one to me. The weave, color, band ties all look correct. Is the band stiff and tight?

Great story. I can see it all happening.   Rest easy Captain Hopkins. 🫡