Unidentified Militaria - post your items here

Claudiu,

The belt is definitely post war but with uncommon sewing lines, I have seen a few variations in the sewing on the communist era belts so I’m not surprised.

The WWII belts were wider and were made from smooth leather.

Thanks for the help.

Any ideea about the uniforms?
And the motorcycle? Is it a miliatry one?

They are policemen of the Public Guardsmen Corps ("Corpul Gardienilor Publici"), wearing M. 1929, brown piped dark red uniforms. Right shoulder aiguillettes are white and the cuffs rank insignia, gold. The policeman at the rear wears the summer white canvas tunic.

I have no idea about the motorbike, but it delongs to the Police because it has the initials "PL" (from Police), at the end of the registration number .

The photo seems to be taken late 1930s or early 1940s.

Thanks a lot Kepi.
The motor is Belgian made.

Kepi,

I recently aquired a pre-1929 uniform that I was told was Gendarne. It is dark brown in color with a solid rasberry red collar. No other piping. Would this uniform have been from the Public Guardsmen Corps - Corpul Gardienilor Publici as well ?

It might be possible. Do you have a photo of this uniform?

This is something I could not identify....perhaps you can provide some help.
It was found near a trench, in the ground. My guess is that is a part of a somekind of a shell, mortar round or a grenade, because the area was littered with large pieces of bursted shells.
It is a concave discus, 6cm in diameter and 1cm thick with a round hole in the center cca.7mm in diameter.
I will clean this object, maybe I will find some markings on it, but until then I am waiting for your opinions.

Well, I have found the answer myself. It seems to be the base part of the propulsion system from a shrapnell shell and judging by the way it looks, it makes sense.
In the diagram you can identify it on no.7.



The image was taken from: cartridgecollectors.org

A crate found on my uncle's garage.
Can anyone to tell what weapon/ammo it contained, and in what year it was manufactured the crate, if posible, pls?



This post has been edited by 21 inf on July 14, 2007 08:31 pm

A friend of mine is interested in this tunic from a vendor on Ebay. Can anyone hel identify the nationality of it? He knows it is WWII or early post-war European.

Do you have a close up view of the buttons ? Any marks on the buttons and inside the tunic ? Very similar pattern to Romanian but looks more like France or England.

Another unknown item: a close friend of mine has this sword, he got it from someone's attic and he would like to know more about it - like which period does it belong to, who used it, what's the value of such an item...

So here it is:












...and finally, the maker's logo:



Any info will be useful. Thank you in advance

It seems to be a German NCO sword of the second half of 19th century.
However it is possible, that it's a replica.