wandering the battlefields

[mihnea]

All you need now to do is clean te steel and make a new wood handle.

This post has been edited by mihnea on June 24, 2008 07:41 am

[Ferdinand]

c'mon andi! we are waiting!

[Ferdinand]

hallo!


went today in Bran-Fundata area....small sunday ride. in a place where the road is situated at high altitude, in the vecinity of Fundata, i took a walk along the road, on the side with mountain(the other side was a big valley). the dicth was full of rocks brought by rain water and among the rock there was a lot of metal parts.

below are shown some pieces that i found in 2 min of walking along the road.








area looked like this(objects found in the ditch near the hill)



i miss my "special firend with special power" if you know what i mean...

[Ferdinand]

hallo!


just got these rare black bakelite handgrips for the mp38-mp40, stamped with series(1488 1 & 1489 4), and 38 / z3(producer code)
they have the original screw, rusty thow.

the objects are part of a weapon that an old man(passed away some years ago) found near a lake in Vaslui county. his grandson told me the story :
in the early days after the german retreated moldova, he(old man) went fishing and he found in the water of the lake a body of a german soldier. he and the other 2 guys that were with him run away since at those times was very dangerous to have any german item. at night he returned to the lake and took the dead soldiers weapon.

anyway, this friend of mine knows about german militaria as much as someone could seen in Sergiu Nicolaescu's movies.

he also told me that as a child, he found in the addic a box with some pistol bullets. he was talking about mp40 bullets. at the barn he has a german gask mask dose full of vaseline, also some other boxes full now with tools....etc.
hope that i didn't got bored you with the story.











gruss!

[Dragos1984]

Hi,

You are right that is an MP40 bakelite handles.
by the markings on the back its 100% German from WW2.
you have a very nice find and I think you should keep it,
it's rare to have have an original item with such a wonderful story.
Imagine if they can only talk

[Ferdinand]

just spoke to y friend and he called his brother in vaslui....he said that some time ago he saw the other bakelite grips(the long pieces that came on mp's sides) and also the percution part(percutor....i don't know the word)maybe i'll be luky

[Dragos1984]

That would be so cool! let us know what happends.

[ANDI]

Back with some more findings from the Coti mountain and nearby Rosia village wooded hills.
...a thick shell fragment...

...and a full lenght, big chunk of a shrapnell...

[ANDI]

...an interesting find. One tent pole, made of copper, cca.25cm in lenght.

[ANDI]

...lots of romanian spent cartidges and empty ammo clips lying around the fox holes...

[ANDI]

...mixed items found on the site, empty and live cartridges in their clips...

[ANDI]

...cca. 30 empty m93, 6.5mm cartridges lying in one spot (actually there were more), most probably a machine gun nest...

[Mannlicher]

yummy!

[cipiamon]

Andy i am waiting for a sign from you, maby we will visit some battle sites near Bucharest. I lost my phone and probably your inbox is full.

[ANDI]

Another trip to Boita village and surrounding hills.
...unknown recipient cca.15cm in diameter, no lid, no bottom...