Heres a creepy one: Kreta Armelband

[Brandenburger]

Hi,

If you search for luminol, you can buy it online (My GF told me this, she's a forensic science student ) This will tell you once and for all if it is blood or not (you need to take a sample on a wet cotton bud from the title then you can safely test it on the bud).

Best Wishes,
Tom

[peter u]

Hello Tom,

Can you please ask your girlfriend if "luminol" makes a difference between:
- human or animal blood?
- does it show a differnce between recent blood and older like WW2 era or even older Napoleonic era for example?
- Does it actually still work on +/- 65 year old bloodstains?

Cheers,
Peter

[Robert T.]

Hello Tom,

Can you please ask your girlfriend if "luminol" makes a difference between:
- human or animal blood?
- does it show a differnce between recent blood and older like WW2 era or even older Napoleonic era for example?
- Does it actually still work on +/- 65 year old bloodstains?

Cheers,
Peter

Peter,

After doing some research om GOOGLE , I have learned that luminol can detect even very ancient traces of blood .

BUT IT WILL NOT TELL YOU IF IT IS HUMAN OR ANIMAL (another test can do that; the precipitin test ), OR GIVE YOU A TIME PERIOD .

Here is one site :http://caligula.bcs.deakin.edu.au/bc...minol_test.htm

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Robert

[peter u]

Thank Robert,

So this means that "luminol" is not the easy answer that we are looking for to detect if it is original periode human blood on oure items.
Because the unbelieving Thomas is always going to have a point : "hé, that stain is just pigs blood from last year".
If collecting only could be that easy, you just buy a on-line a cheap bottle of spray that can tell you that you have the real deal in your collection or not.
It would be easy to take to militaria fairs also, a small bottle of "luminol" in your pocket and it is always dark in those venues; so you could test the items their on the spot.
Sorry, but that is not how it works.

Cheers,
Peter

[Robert T.]

More "BLOODY" pictures from PETER ( taken today at the Belgian army museum in Brussels ).
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Robert

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[naxos]

hi Robert,

pretty graphic - any details known regarding the blood on the tunic?

Hardy

[Robert T.]

hi Robert,

pretty graphic - any details known regarding the blood on the tunic?

Hardy

Waiting for Peter U to comment.
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Robert

[peter u]

Hello,

Some very good examples of bloodstained items kept in the army museum in Brussels, this is how they should look imo no "luminol" test is going to be needed on that tunic and saddle.
The army museum in Brussels has a nice collection of battle damaged items that came from the battle of Waterloo!

Sorry I forgot the name of that officer, but it is a tunic from a (kapitein-commandant) commander of a lancers regiment that got wounded during the combat actions in Zwijndrecht (Belgium) on May 19th 1940.
He did survive the wounds obtained there.
Look at the medalbars: he is a WW1 vet also.
Look at the bloodstain details on this no-doubts about it WW2 light kaki colored tunic. See how dark the bloodstaining is.

The saddle belonged to French general Durutte commander of the 4th French division.
In the evening of June 18th 1815 when the battle of Waterloo was lost for Napoleon, this general tried to flee, he was caught in the evening by allied cavalry.
In this skirmish he got cruelly wounded in the face hence his blood on the saddle. He survived his wounds also.
"General count Pierre francois Joseph Durrute GOC of the 4th infanterie divison, this divison got badly cut up by Vandeleurs cavalry during the French retreat. Durutte lost his right hand and was badly disfigured by a sword slash to the head - information from: The Waterloo companion by Mark Adkin"

Cheers,
Peter

Ps: thanks Robert for posting these images, so collectors worldwide can benefit from the items kept in Belgian collections.