,Hello folks,i have been collecting British,German US militaria from D Day to Berlin since the 1970s and have amassed many bits and pieces over the years (when they were cheap!)..i also have around 400 British and foreign campaign and gallantry medals covering Waterloo to the Gulf ,around 300 British cap badges,miscellaneous British,US and German cloth insignia and a good representation of most of the Third Reich decorations and combat awards.
i have around 100 complete uniforms representing the British,US,German soldier of circa D Day to the end of the war,most of my collection "goes with" each other to make complete uniforms,which currently represent the British/US/German soldier and airman,tank crew and Military Police,with Canadian/Polish/Russian odds...the Airborne forces of Britain,USA,and Germany are also represented...the periods D Day/Arnhem/Berlin is mainly my thing..i have a lot of WW1 stuff,but mainly battlefield archaeology..there is also some Victorian period stuff,but mainly Border regiment related..which is another of my interests. I also have a lot of WW2 British/American/German battlefield archaeology,and a good representative selection of deacts/weapons/ordnance of the WW2 period including various .38 revolvers,MG42 on its tripod..Vickers .303 on its tripod..Bren...30 Browning..Panzerschreck...45ACP..Artillery Luger ..P38....MP40.....FG42....G41, and have had many more pieces of ordnance throughout the years like Berettas,European K98s, Thompsons,Garands,M1 carbines,ZB37,MG34,BAR..which have passed into other peoples collections.
I also collect, convert,paint and accessorise 1/16 WW2 radio control tanks.
as impressive as it sounds ,i am not a dealer..i have no retail premises, i used to stand at the car boot sales and military fairs both selling my surplus bits and buying items and occasionally when i want a perticular item for my collection to finish a uniform i usually have to buy whatever whoevers selling just to get the one item...this leaves misc bits which i list on E Bay...usually car boot sale finds...hence the low starting prices...my only regret is that when i sold off my collection of 200++ sweetheart brooches and brass shoulder titles there was no such thing as E bay back then..i could have made a fortune!!.
since i found out how to do it, i now have pictures listed with all the items i have for sale..these pictures are of the actual piece offered and have not been nicked from dealer catalogs...THE PICTURES ARE THERE FOR YOUR REFERENCE FOLKS,DO NOT BID BLIND UNLESS YOURE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN YOU WANT THE ITEM YOURE AFTER.
ANY EX LIBRARY BOOKS i have listed may, due to its nature of being ex library stock, have obvious stampings, page removed with dates on,grubbiness and handling marks, borrowers pencil annotations etc etc..they are secondhand books and are not mint. Should you win one please dont contact me because i didnt describe it down to the very last detail regarding condition etc..an ex library book is just that...you want a minter....buy it in a bookshop!!.
any item i have listed as BUY NOW indicates an item of which i have multiples of, due to me buying in old undescovered stocks etc..the picture which illustrates a BUY NOW item is representative of the items available, so while the picture is from the lot, the pictured item will probably not be the actual badge you recieve..but it will be of the same quality
TERMS AND CONDITIONS>>READ ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM>>IF YOU DONT LIKE THEM>>>DO NOT BID..............THE DAY I POST AN ITEM WILL BE LISTED IN THE FEEDBACK I LEAVE FOR YOU.........
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PURCHASERS (aka boring reading bit)...All items are owned by me and are not offered on behalf of others..UK PAYMENT is either by CHEQUE..POSTAL ORDER..both of these methods are preferred..,CASH (sent registered)..or,as a last resort,PAYPAL,when it arrives,ill do the rest.
.NON UK PAYMENT..either bySTERLING CASH sent registered post (so i can sign for it and you know its got here), or PAY PAL... NON UK BIDDERS PLEASE STATE IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR POSTAGE TO BE REGULAR BASIC NO FRILLS AIR MAIL OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR, with postage total being determined by weight when i get your item weighed..i will then let you know the postage total...non UK orders will also be sent with Customs declaration stickers attatched, giving a truthful but basic description of the contents. SEE ALSO "POSTAGE "(below)
WHERE DO I POST TO?..so far AMERICA..ITALY..ARGENTINA..POLAND..AUSTRALIA..NEW ZEALAND..MACAU..MALTA..SPAIN..GIBRALTAR..IRELAND (Southern and Northern)..CHANNEL ISLANDS..NORWAY..FRANCE..GERMANY....CANADA...HONG KONG..DENMARK...BELGIUM..JAPAN...THE NETHERLANDS..SLOVENIA...GREECE...SOUTH AFRICA..,,CZECH REPUBLIC...MALAYSIA.....FINLAND...HUNGARY....
POSTAGE>>POSTAGE>>POSTAGE>>................
POSTAGE DISCOUNTS>>>>APPLY ONLY TO UK ORDERS>>I WILL SEND UK ORDERS INVOICE WITH POSTAGE DISCOUNTED FOR NUMEROUS ITEMS WON.....FOR NON UK ORDERS THE POSTAGE IS WHAT THE OVERALL WEIGHT OF THE PACKAGE IS...IN SOME CASES ORDERS TO OUTSIDE THE UK ON MULTIPLE WINS MAY BE SPLIT INTO 2 OR EVEN AS MUCH AS 4 SEPERATE PARCELS..USUALLY THIS WORKS OUT MUCH CHEAPER IN POSTAGE TO YOU THAN SENDING ONE PARCEL AS AFTER IT GETS OVER A CERTAIN WEIGHT ITS NO LONGER CLASSED AS A "SMALL PARCEL", BUT AS AN "AIR PARCEL"....NON UK WINNERS WILL RECIEVE 2 POSTAL QUOTES BEFORE I SEND INVOICE, ONE QUOTE FOR UNSIGNED YOUR RISK, THE OTHER QUOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED/INSURED..YOU WILL HAVE THE CHOICE AND WHEN YOU LET ME KNOW,I WILL SEND INVOICE ADJUSTED WITH YOUR POSTAL CHOICE..NON UK WINNERS PLEASE DO NOT PAY UNTILL YOU HAVE BEEN SENT INVOICE.
ALL POSTAL QUOTES WITH AN ITEM I HAVE LISTED ARE FOR POSTAGE WITHIN THE UK ONLY...FOR NON UK ORDERS I WILL CHECK...JUST ASK QUESTION VIA THE E BAY "ASK SELLER A QUESTION" FEATURE.
.allow 7 days for cheque to clear and up to 2 weeks for delivery but usually your order then your order will be posted the following Monday.
I get proof of postage on all items sent out ,smaller items posted in the UK ,such as will be in the post the day after i recieve payment..if i recieve payment on a Friday or Saturday medal/badge/toy car will be sent Recorded Delivery..larger items book/helmet/uniform etc will be sent parcel post..usually the items sent recorded will reach their destination the day after i post them
I WILL ONLY MARK AN ITEM AS SENT OR POSTED ONCE I HAVE RECIEVED PAYMENT...IF I HAVENT MARKED IT SO,ITS BECAUSE YOUR PAYMENT HAS NOT BEEN RECIEVED...(regardeless of whether or not you have marked it as payment sent).
IMPORTANT>>>>>>>>> I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ITEM BROKEN OR LOST ONCE ITS POSTED ,UNLESS ITS BEED SENT EITHER RECORDED (uk) OR INT SIGNED FOR (non uk)...IF ITS BEEN SENT BASIC POSTAGE..I CANT CLAIM IT BACK FROM POST OFFICE AND WE BOTH LOSE..IF SENT RECORDED/SIGNED FOR THEN I WILL BE ABLE TO CLAIM FOR LOST ITEMS AND WILL REFUND............ AND I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR DELIVERY TIMES...THIS VARIES.
RETURN OF ITEMS>>>>>.............
NOTHING,REPEAT, NOTHING YOU WIN ON E BAY IS RETURNABLE>>>>>I FEEL THAT ENOUGH PICTURES GIVE AN ACCURATE VISUAL DISCRIPTION OF ANY ITEM I HAVE,ALONG WITH A DISCRIPTIVE TEXT....IF IM SELLING A WW2 PIECE OF KIT LIKE A UNIFORM>>I GIVE SIZES,BUT OFFER THE ITEMS AS COLLECTORS PIECES, NOT FOR ACTUAL WEAR..IF YOU DAMAGE AN ITEM THROUGH YOUR OWN MISUSE...YOUR PROBLEM....IF YOU RECIEVE AN ITEM THEN A FEW WEEKS LATER TRY TO SEND IT BACK BECAUSE ITS SCRATCHED...AND I KNOW IT WAS OK WHEN SENT....DONT TRY TO SEND IT BACK....I KEEP PICS OF ALL ITEMS SENT OUT WHICH SHOW CONDITION IT WAS IN BEFORE IT LEFT.....IT HAS BEEN TRIED!!!!!!.
ALL ITEMS ARE LISTED TO SELL...IF YOU DONT LIKE THE ITEM...DONT BID...ITS THAT SIMPLE.....BY BIDDING ON SOMETHING YOU DONT WANT NOT ONLY WASTES MY TIME BUT ALSO THAT OF GENUINE BIDDERS.
As from 25 Jan 07 i accept Pay Pal as payment.
Any questions??please feel free to drop a line,but bear in mind im not at the computer 24/7,so can only provide answers as and when..usually i will not be available weekdays between 7.30am and 4.30 pm due to work commitments,so please excuse any late reply.
FEEDBACK>>FEEDBACK>>FEEDBACK............
MY FEEDBACK....good, bad or indifferent..its there for you to see...the only negative rating in my feedback was caused by some idiot who won a Chernobyl medal from me..then without contacting me, slagged it off as an old school medal...i sent him evidence that it was what it was..then he contacted me saying maybe he had been "hasty" in leaving his negative feedback..i replied to him asking him to retract the negative feedback...he hasnt, and ive never heard from him since!!...personally i think he tried to sell the medal on at a higher price than he paid (nothing wrong with that)..then when he couldnt, he got a rat up his ass!. I allways leave feedback on anything i buy/sell..its up to yourselves if you leave me feedback........im not one of these people who feels their lives are going to end if feedback isnt left.!!!
IF I WIN ANYTHING FROM YOU ON E BAY>>>>>>>............
IF I WIN ANYTHING ON E BAY...Payment will be by cheque..or P.O..or..if theres enough in account and its acceptable,Pay Pal..usually in the post the day after i win the item,but if i win on Friday/weekend,then its in the post the following monday. |
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