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I went off to an auction last night, and while I didn't really get anything I'd hoped for, I did do surprisingly well at small items.
There was a 1918 M1905 Springfield sword bayo that looked to be WW2 refurbed for a hundred, a Utica M-3 fighting knife and a sharpened short AFH bayonet for sixty apiece, a Chilean bayonet that'd been mixed in with two turks (and thus went unnoticed and went turk-priced!), a Swiss Vetterli carbine cheap, a Lyman 438 scope for seventy bucks, and some '06 and .30 Carbine dies for sixteen a set. Five hundredish bucks and an evening well spent.
Much of the estate was from a WW2 vet, and while I couldn't/wouldn't afford his M1903A3, for some strange reason I chased up a 1941 JQMD cartridge belt and canvas rifle scabbard, figuring I could sell 'em off to somebody on the boards or trade 'em to a gunshop that's always buying period kit.
I won, and went home to catalogue my loot and figure out how much I might've overpaid. I figured I got took when I mistook the Lyman scope for a Unterl. Hey, they look kinda the same.
Well, despite being cinched down to smallest size and obviously unused for several decades, and doubtless worth more than the thirty bucks I spent, I loosened up and tried on the cartridge belt, just to say I had.
Since I had some M-1 clips kicking around on my desk, I started filling up the pouches. Only natural to see how it fits and hangs full...
I found this chip of lava-rock, carefully wrapped up in the clip-retaining strap, in the first pouch on the left side.
Buy the piece, not the story, but still.
There was a 1918 M1905 Springfield sword bayo that looked to be WW2 refurbed for a hundred, a Utica M-3 fighting knife and a sharpened short AFH bayonet for sixty apiece, a Chilean bayonet that'd been mixed in with two turks (and thus went unnoticed and went turk-priced!), a Swiss Vetterli carbine cheap, a Lyman 438 scope for seventy bucks, and some '06 and .30 Carbine dies for sixteen a set. Five hundredish bucks and an evening well spent.
Much of the estate was from a WW2 vet, and while I couldn't/wouldn't afford his M1903A3, for some strange reason I chased up a 1941 JQMD cartridge belt and canvas rifle scabbard, figuring I could sell 'em off to somebody on the boards or trade 'em to a gunshop that's always buying period kit.
I won, and went home to catalogue my loot and figure out how much I might've overpaid. I figured I got took when I mistook the Lyman scope for a Unterl. Hey, they look kinda the same.
Well, despite being cinched down to smallest size and obviously unused for several decades, and doubtless worth more than the thirty bucks I spent, I loosened up and tried on the cartridge belt, just to say I had.
Since I had some M-1 clips kicking around on my desk, I started filling up the pouches. Only natural to see how it fits and hangs full...
I found this chip of lava-rock, carefully wrapped up in the clip-retaining strap, in the first pouch on the left side.
Buy the piece, not the story, but still.