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Posted by: chrisrotlmacin June 05, 2006 02:45 am

Hi to every one , this is my first post and i will introduce my self in the same time with the thread . My name is Cristian , i am from Bucharest Romania , former cruise ships crew member , i become a member of woldwar2.ro forum as pasionated of Romanian Military ships in WW2 and romanian military history . My grand father died on the russian front in WW2.

Regarding the topic "My dog tag machine from WW2" i brought a military dog tag machine on ebay for only 108$ , exactly a Adressograph Multigraph 6341 , the machine had same parts broken but i repair it . Was full of rust , took me one week to fix it . Anyway the best part is that i find out on the forum of this type of machines at www.graphotype.net that the machine was made in 1939 !!!! so is a WW2 machine . I brought the machine from a private person in Florida witch brought the machine from company that sells military surplus of a military base of U.S.Marines . Included with the machine was a box with U.S.military dog tags and chains but from modern era , box was posted in 1984 to the seller , the tags are impecable no rust at all .

I also have a second machine a Graphotype 6340 from 1963 , at this time i work on fixing it , i brought it from a old guy in Illinois witch buy the machine from a military base as military surplus at the end of the Vietnam War .

Both machines are mechanic and have a 110V motor , later on if any one intresteed i will post in my web site couple pictures and a video file for those intrested.

I have a question to the forum users: is any one know any owner of similar machines in Romania ??

The machine in the picture is not the machine i have , is exactly the same.

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Posted by: darius1941 June 05, 2006 08:53 am

I have never seen a Dog tag machine with a motor!
All of the models which I come across here in the u.s. at the military flea markets are later model which are hand operated and are a olive drab color.
I have also seen blank ww2 dog tags and chains for sale at these flea markets,bu
t can not recall the cost of these items.
A few years ago I had a chance too buy a army ww2 dated sewing machine but waited too long and you know what happened some one bought it and for $3.00 i
t was a steal.

Posted by: chrisrotlmacin June 18, 2006 10:14 pm

I made two small pages for info on my machines . Both machines are in Bucharest new . Any one else with a similar machine ???

http://www.romaniangiftshop.com/6341.html

http://www.romaniangiftshop.com/6340.html

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Posted by: Dragos1984 June 21, 2006 08:25 pm

hey hows it going !
since u have these 2 great machines i was wandering if u wanna make me a U.S. army dog tag with my name and everything.
if u agree we can discus the price and the arangement

Dragos

Posted by: chrisrotlmacin June 23, 2006 11:25 pm

Of course i will sell you one . Check this topic : http://www.animale.ro/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5765
Is me selling . Looking at your name i guess that you can read romanian

U.S.Army is using a set of two tags .

I will post also a add in the advertising section in this forum .
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Posted by: Dragos1984 June 24, 2006 11:59 am

ok how can we do this? r u going to give me ur email address so i can send u my personal dates and name.
then we can discuss the payment.
p.s. i want the full dog tags thats 15 lei Ron right?
numai bine
Dragos

Posted by: chrisrotlmacin June 24, 2006 04:10 pm

check your e-mail . user posted image

Posted by: chrisrotlmacin May 06, 2007 01:12 pm

QUOTE (Dragos1984 @ June 24, 2006 11:59 am)

If i am not mistaken you ask me to tell you when i will have the dull tags . They just arrived .