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If anyone has a spare pick, the wood egg shaped tool with metal picks coming out both ends, I'd sure like to hear from you as I need one. Thanks

I think that you have to consider the G before the Jr - this would make sense as it would be the Gebirgs Jager Regiment 85 - I did a quick google and believe it was formed in 1941. HTH

I got out my watercan and had to soften and remove some paint, but underneath it all it was stamped with the manufacturers name 'J. B. on the first line, Emmerich on the 2nd line all inside a rectangle, J.B. again below the box and something below that, just can't read it with a magnifier. HTH as fa...

35th Fusilier Regt "Prince Heinrich of Prussia" Brandenburg formed 1815, probably the 2nd MG company to the regiment

No - feld grau but IIRC I purchased it from Homer Brett at Allentown sometime in the mid 70's. Inside has some grayish goop inside the lid and looking with a light sometype of varnish on the inside. I have seen ones like you got quite a few times at Allentown or the old Baltimore show (5th Regt Armo...

I picked one up many moons ago for somewhere between 100 and 150 - original, at the Allentown PA GS. Does your's have the varnish/shellac peeling off on the inside. Whatever mine was lined with, it is peeling on the inside and appears to be some type of varnish that was used back in the day to make ...

OK - here is a Meissen plate from my collection that was made during the 1920's - it is to 'Machinengewehr Scharfschutzen Abteilung 52' as published in the German book 'Die Regiments- und Erinnerungsteller der Meissen Porzellanmanufaktur' by Georg Duwe in 1985. There is one other plate that was made...

While not a part for a MG, these are pre-WWI steins both from MG companies attached to infantry regiments. I've been collecting steins for many years, and these are some from my collection. One is what is called a 'crew finial' with 2 soldiers and the MG08 between them and 3 bullets holding up the f...

Sounds like the Krupp steel mark - three interlocking circles