Posted on 01/19/2014 3:05:02 PM PST by EveningStar
When I got my grandmother’s sewing table out of her house after the 1998 fire, it was full of old notions, including a lot of needles and things that were manufactured in Occupied Japan in the late 40s. I sold the whole batch to an antique store in Norman.
Per the post above, the items in this article are older, though. Very interesting.
That’s his dirty secret ....
Way cool and incredibly rare.
Should sell it or donate it to a WWII museum like the one in New Orleans.
Priceless? No, not at all. Collectors of such things would pay something for it, but this makes it sound like it’s the only one of its kind in the world, which it isn’t. These were mass produced during war time, I would imagine there are a lot of these in surplus and many still in Japanese collectors hands.
It looks to be in very good condition for what it is and so it is a collectable but I doubt it would fetch more than a few hundred dollars.
Very interesting, that chest and contents belong in a museum somewhere.
My father gave me his G.I. survival kit for flight crews in the WWII Pacific Theater a while back. Very cool rectangular duck pouch with two sealed flasks inside for use as canteens after emptying. Medical items in one (including amphetamines) and general survival and fishing tackle in the other. Of course, the Hershey’s Tropical chocolate bars were lousy . . .
I would love finding such things...at estate or garage sales with open house, I head for the basement and the old garage that no one bothered with. Its amazing what most people find as junk that is a treasure from the past..
I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop. I work here with my old man and my son, "Big Hoss." Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I've learned after 21 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door."
I have a buddy, OK if I call him to authenticate it?
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