Post War Conversions

[chiffonnier]

wartime M42 shells as postwar issue Tjech and Norwegian army helmets.

[chiffonnier]

denazified fire service helmet.

[OKMOTORPOOL]

post war conversions

Here is a site that shows many of the postwar uses of common military items

http://www.nachkriegszeit.de/index.html

[uscob]

Here is a site that shows many of the postwar uses of common military items

http://www.nachkriegszeit.de/index.html

Thanks for this Link, it's really interesting.

[chiffonnier]

yep,great website.
especially the toy selection.
here a converted P38 holster into a smaller sized one.(regular GI issue matchbook cover for size comparrison).
probably a civilian done conversion .
if recognised by someone however, let it know.
all the best,
kees

[chiffonnier]

young man's jacket made from a US shelter half.
the wooden buttons are handmade.
maybe from a leg off a chair or table.

[uscob]

yep,great website.
especially the toy selection.
here a converted P38 holster into a smaller sized one.(regular GI issue matchbook cover for size comparrison).
probably a civilian done conversion .
if recognised by someone however, let it know.
all the best,
kees

I love the VD Match Book.
We have some nice VD Posters in our Museum in Berlin.

[chiffonnier]

VD's are easy to pic up as you can see on another matchbook cover.
starting a thread about VD's wouldn't be appropriate,so to camouflage this one I added some others wich were plenty available just post war.
also some early liberation celebration items.
maybe someone knows the brass souvenir of germany items.
one says;1945 but they can be much later.

Kees

[Collectinsteve]

Ah! So you got some of the Norwegian helmets! I remember reading someone saying they had seen the stocks of these back in the 1980s and there were tons of them. But I don't think the Norwegians have let go of more than a small percentage. I wonder why?

Steve

[chiffonnier]

Steve;all I know these were real cheap when they came into the market.
maybe some norwegian army quartermaster "organised" a quantity through the back gate.
you know how quartermasters are.
entrepreneurs.

kees

[chiffonnier]

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[Jeroen P]

swords to ploughshares, eh.

Nowadays, I would like to have a German helmet converted to a colander in my collection, and I would consider it more of a serious collecting object than I would have ten years ago. It's just so symbolic.