Nice grabs. Here are a couple of pictures from the final closing day sale at my favorite surplus store, Mountain View Surplus. Sadly it closed for good something like 15-20 years ago. I always walked out of that shop with something or other. Nowadays there isn’t any good surplus places around. The last two are surplus in name only. 😢 Best wishes to you at basic! I’m sure you will do just fine. Let us know how you are doing when you are able.  mikie

Killer man!!! Congrats! Those are the kind of yard sale finds of my dreams, love the thunderbirds 4 pockets, and brothers KIA and WIA PH’s, really can’t get much better than that. Congrats!

Thanks for your brief on Rye Field Model Lars.     Sounds similar to my first experience with Meng.  I built their Leopard 2A7 a few years ago and with 2,300 + parts, it really had me occupied! 😁

I just acquired this helmet as part of a grouping to a late war draftee. He was D/366th IR. 

Thanks Warguy! I think we both have a soft spot for this period. 

Amazing collection Dirk. You really rock this China stuff! Thanks for sharing. 

Here are a few embroidered China Marine souvenir smoking robes….the two blue ones, I believe are Shanghai made pre-war, and the red and white post war North China. One of the prewar robes probably started out life as a dress blue jacket before being converted by a local tailor. Some restoration work has been done to stabilize the silk collar by a professional textile conservator. The needle work on the pre war examples is excellent. Many old China hands would use  such robes when relaxing in their barracks, which in many cases in Shanghai meant a rented out villa. Since such robes have long been out of style, not many pre-war survive today. The robe with the EGA toward the bottom of this thread is in the USMC collection, but I added it here as well to show customization changes depending on the owners tastes.

As a set, 100-135.00.  If you broke it up and sold it into three pieces it’s worth a little bit more.   

4 Local Northern Kentucky WWII vets all from one city wide yard sale. 2 Purple Hearts awarded to 2 brothers one KIA one WIA. Ralph Greenwood KIA 2nd day of the Battle of the Bulge 393rd Infantry Regiment 99th Division and his brother William Greenwood WIA France. Both from Elsmere Ky. Elmer Thomas CIB 45th Division, Covington Ky Garon Atwell 9th Army Artillery Campbell County Ky. Everyone will have their own post in due time, over the moon right now let me know what you think! Great to finally have a local KIA PH represented in the collection. Williams heart is numbered, Ralph’s is not. Picked up a local Korea vets grouping yesterday too.

What would you think the helmet is worth?