I am now based in Taranaki, New Zealand. I also list on a variety of international sites as well as Trade Me (NZ). I am one of two retail shops specialising in Victorian to Vietnam era military items. We have new stock arriving weekly, and also purchase collections as well as selling on behalf.
I have been collecting for over 30 years and have an extensive personal collection, with a special interest in WWI New Zealand Badges, photos, uniforms and general history of NZ forces in WWI. I also enjoy collecting original German photos.
I am no expert, but I am knowledgeable about a lot of military items and I give my honest opinion on anything I sell through the shop and guarantee that what you get is what you see and as is described.
I am passionate about military as I have a long family military history, and feel a strong connection to the past with the items I purchase, and the history they come with, so much so that I can't let some things go!
The first one that you show I got a fairly good condition one for £35 I've seen people ask a thousand pounds for one is it really worth that or is ot just people hoping???
Such bs when you think about it, You fight a war of gunpowder and artillery yet you want to punish someone for having a serrated blade. Honestly a normal bayonet had the same effect. Now if you added a Gut hook I'd get the reasoning cause that's screwed.
It's a nice original 2nd pattern, the reproductions have thinner handles, guard, and blade. Also a gap between the guard and the blade. Still v functional.
Awesome insightful video! The Tranters were considered to be amongst the best percussion revolves. They were produced in a variety of calibers from small up to 50 and 577 calibers. Did the English ,Canadian or Australian users of the Tranter cap&ball percussion revolvers use Combustible Paper Cartridges like the Americans did in their cap&ball percussion revolvers?
Tranter was a competitor of ADAMS ,The first Adams was "self cocking" but would only fire with a full trigger pull The Tranter was popular as it cocked the hammer & allowed deliberate touching off with the centre trigger in the guard.. so nice on the target range but with skill loading a cylinder took @ 1..2 minutes. with the round ball the grooved bullet with grease in the channel was desirable if the gun was to be loaded for some time it proved too complex in the heat of a close battle & quickly reverted to true double action (thumb cocking or long pull rising & falling hammer) the "SINGLE ACTION of the Colt ( cylinder turn & hammer ready to touch off ) was more usual in USA as targets were generally at longer distance. There was a grim rumour that frantic pulling of BOTH triggers resulted in a temporary "lock up" with Tranters fatal to the user! remember these guns are 150 + YEARS OLD real antiques! so do not try firing they are too valuable & really good steel was VERY scarce before 1870 and blow ups were fairly common . If you wish to shoot join a black powder club & use modern replica preferably stainless steel they are easy to clean & the actions are safe too. Yes these are a relic of the land wars, Remember the tribes had been absolutely slaughtered (by each other! ) prior to Treaty 1840 (@40000 dead not of @ 120000 population & captured victims were slaves (or worse yum!) disease was also a big problem! Much of todays "education" misses the truly aweful problems of our past! we need several view points without the advantage of metal ,cloth, fruit ,vegetables pigs sheep cows horses suckles wheat writing etc. Tribal life was Truly Hard in ways we cannot know! We are ALL just SO fortunate to live TODAY** YAY
There were also American-made self-cockers. Savage-North made a Navy caliber gun with a figure-8 trigger that operated in the same manner and Starr produced a self-cocker in both the Navy and Army calibers. The Army caliber Starr was the 3rd most issued northern forces revolver of the American Civil War.
She might be an 80s replica by the looks, that someone used. I can't remember who made it but they did a v42 also and used to be for sale in American Blade magazine. It was expensive back then and if it was mint would be a valuable blade now.
@@ethanmcardle3215 not a chance. An original ww2 2nd patt start at like £500 and really good condition ones are well north of £1000. The £70 ones are just cheapy modern replicas with zinc alloy handles not the brass of the originals and the overall quality is really poor. Original 2nd patts are very rare and £70 wouldn't even be an opening bid.
Mr Darren well I assumed that this random guy on RU-vid hasn’t got a box full of original ww2 FBS commando knives so I guessed he probably has modern replicas.
I got a Wilkinson sword 2nd pattern for $100 so anything is possible, keep an eye out!! I own a Randall Made 5-6 from the late 40s that was $200 never know what you’ll find at the pawn shop...
