Looking for two Holy Grails...

[WWIIBuff]

It's been a while since I last posted that I am looking for these, but I still am.

1) Complete No.74 Sticky Bomb
2) Type 6 Rigid Limpet Mine

Thanks

John

 

[BMG50]

The 74 are about as with the limpet but fetch high prices, the hard to find part on the 74 is the outer metal cover just for them are silly money. My holy grails are a nice set of butter fly wings SD2 and a 88 mint flak projectile.

 

[WWIIBuff]

The 74 are about as with the limpet but fetch high prices, the hard to find part on the 74 is the outer metal cover just for them are silly money. My holy grails are a nice set of butter fly wings SD2 and a 88 mint flak projectile.

I realize that I will need to step up and pay a good amount for either of these, but as long as they are nice examples, I am willing. I already have a couple of the No.74's, but not a complete one with the clamshell exterior.

 

[BMG50]

Thats what i am after the condition. When you think they used thousands of these in the UK all the bits buried and scattered everywhere, clam shells dropped over the old training commons rusting to nothing, sometimes a gem turns up like a handle or clam shell turns up at a car boot or collection because someone picked it up over the common during the war or 1950s as a curiosity. When one turns up its first on the draw with cash in hand. Ebay can be a good place as those selling dont know what they got and list it under something else, fingers crossed, happy hunting.

 

[Millsman]

About 15 years ago the late Mike Saffery told me that in the 1980s he was rooting about inside Fort Amhurst in Chatham and found a metal cupboard full of rusty sticky bomb clam shell covers. Dozens of them. When he went back a few weeks later with a holdall, the cupboard had gone along with the contents.

Aaaah !

 

[WWIIBuff]

About 15 years ago the late Mike Saffery told me that in the 1980s he was rooting about inside Fort Amhurst in Chatham and found a metal cupboard full of rusty sticky bomb clam shell covers. Dozens of them. When he went back a few weeks later with a holdall, the cupboard had gone along with the contents.

Aaaah

Sadly, they were probably all destroyed.

 

[BMG50]

About 15 years ago the late Mike Saffery told me that in the 1980s he was rooting about inside Fort Amhurst in Chatham and found a metal cupboard full of rusty sticky bomb clam shell covers. Dozens of them. When he went back a few weeks later with a holdall, the cupboard had gone along with the contents.

Aaaah !

I bet someones sitting on these.

 

[WWIIBuff]

I would have thought that if only the clamshells had been taken, but since the cabinet was gone too, it sounded like a cleanout for disposal. But I do hope you are right and that they show up on the market someday soon.

 

[BMG50]

Its amazing what does turn up, one minute its rare as hens teeth the next the market is flooded cheap as chips.

 

[Millsman]

Sadly, they were probably all destroyed.

I expect so. Few people were as interested in those days.

 

[BMG50]

I expect so. Few people were as interested in those days.

When i was young in the 1970s we found stuff still lying about on the old training grounds of WW2 handed back by the Army to civilian use. At the time half the items found we didn't know what it was as there were no reference books or didn't think about looking in the old training manuals. Many a item we tossed away or smashed up not knowing what it was part off. Now i know today i could kick myself.