Military collectibles will be sold live and online by Mohawk Arms, Nov. 16-17 Hundreds of military items from multiple wars and generations will be offered Nov. 16-17 by Mohawk Arms in a live and Internet auction billed as Militaria Auction #68, online and in Bouckville, N.Y.
News-Antique.com - Oct 18,2012 - (BOUCKVILLE, N.Y.) – Hundreds of military items from multiple wars and generations will be offered Nov. 16-17 by Mohawk Arms in a live and Internet auction billed as Militaria Auction #68. The sale will be held in Mohawk Arms’ Bouckville gallery (located on Route 20 in central New York state, not far from Interstates 90 and 81) and online, via LiveAuctioneers.com.
Internet bidding is also available on the Mohawk Arms website (MilitaryRelics.com) and phone, fax and left bids will also be accepted. “This auction is packed with ethnographic items, headgear, art, exotica, Americana, uniforms, swords, edged weapons, decorative veterans’ flags, military steins, medals, books, pistols and more,” said Raymond Zyla, owner of Mohawk Arms.
All lots have been assigned modest opening bids (“OB”). In the ethnographic category (Asian armor, weapons and miscellaneous items), noteworthy lots include an interesting 17th century Indo-Persian helmet in a basic bowl shape, profusely chiseled with gold washed figures (OB: $2,500) and an early 19th century Japanese Edo period armor in great shape (OB: $5,000).
From the same category is a 19th century Persian Pesh-Kabz armor piercing dagger with ivory grips having inlaid bands with a linear design, and an 11 ¾ inch “T” back blade that tapers to a point (OB: $500); and a late 19th century Menangkabu knife made in Sumatra, made from an intricately carved rhino horn and simulated hoof handle, with 9 ¾ inch curved blade (OB: $250).
Two mid-1930s German Nazi helmets are expected to do very well. One is a 1934 double decal SS VT/SD helmet with the original field gray finish showing some wear and the “Fat rune” SS decal and swastika shield decals subdued from age (OB: $3,000). The other is a Normandy pattern 1934 camouflage helmet with white swastikas painted on the sides and front (OB: $850).
Nazi exotica will feature Adolf Hitler’s proof copy of the large format pictorial volume Deutschland, with the inside cover having Hitler’s personal library bookplate and the upper right corner of the flyleaf showing Hitler’s abbreviated signature (OB: $2,000); and a Nazi officer’s uniform, rare, from the SS branch in charge of security at concentration camps (OB: $12,500).
Collectors of Japanese Samurai swords will be intrigued by Gen. Hatazo Adachi’s World War II surrendered samurai sword, dated March 1942, with white rayskin grip, with a 25 ½ inch clean blade and photos of Adachi’s surrender (OB: $5,000); and the sword surrendered by Rear Adm. Nobukagu Yoshimi on Wotje Atoll, Marshall Islands, in 1945, with archive (OB: $3,500).
Medals presented to American heroes will include a lot of nine badges and medals from Sgt. Daniel S. Steinbach, a member of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 101st “Screaming Eagles,” killed in action June 6, 1944 (OB: $2,500); and the silver Masonic Military Lodge medal awarded to Capt. E.G. Quincy of the Civil War 43rd Mass. Regiment (OB: $1,750).
Returning to Nazi items, the auction will also feature a propaganda leaflet distribution rocket, similar to a V-2 in appearance, 55 inches tall
