Hello,   I'm not sure if this is a Type 1 patch? The patch himself should be authentic for WW2 . The Type 2 looks very similar and even with Mark Bando's guide I'm not sure. Are there perhaps a few more trained eyes here on the forum than mine.   Thanks in advance.

Thanks very much for this, Its awesome to have a resource like this forum, these have been in a barrel since the mid 70s  collected in the late 60s early 70s and never did know anything about them except they looked old and Maybe military THANKS to Both responders

Welcome aboard.     Your helmet is very nice as a first piece.  The first item you got seems to hold a special place in most collections.  I know I still have the first item that I got which was a Luftwaffe breast eagle from a neighbor some 60 years ago.  

The characters are ① "光満三七二" and ② "五三".   I don't understand part of the meaning of ①. It might be the "光" unit(=IJA Fourth Army) at "満州"(=Manchuria). "三七二" means number 372.   ② "五三" means number 53.   I'm not sure about the unit, but I hope this helps.

My small collection of, cutlery, crockery & serving silver. Representing the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, RAD & standard hotel silverplate items. Anything special here.   Thank you,  Paul 

A friend found this. Hoping some kind soul can translate it please.

A War Merit Medal/Commemorative Medal of 1 October 1938 ("Sudetenland Medal") ribbon bar to a veteran of the First World War, likely an NSDAP or SDP functionary.   Source:   https://www.germanmilitaria.com/Heer/photos/H003687.html    

Thanks for that info, my friend Chris Rorland of Sabaton did service in the Swedish Army and some of his stories were quite interesting.   Scott

Yes. I noticed that too. Pretty boring. But then again, being very early he didn't have full power at the time so he wasn't gloating as much?

Yes, also the coast artillery modified their uniforms making it the m/42-58. As KA5 was established in 1953, your jacket would be correct for the period 1953-1958. It is also possible that it was used for some time after 1958 before being replaced by new m/58 or modified m/42-58. It could also have been long time stored and used in case of mobilisation of wartime units.   When I did my service in 89-90 we were issued m/58 and m/59. But during the final exercise other guys who were called in to do repetition exercise used the modified m/39-58. So older types of uniforms were stored for readiness purposes.

Hello everyone,   I’m fairly new to collecting German WW2 militaria and currently building up my collection piece by piece. I’m from Sweden and have been exploring this website for a few weeks now. I'm glad to have found this forum and to learn from others who share the same interest. Great tips and knowledge on here!   My very first piece was the helmet which was found near Leningrad, after that I've added items here and there but recently my interest has flared up again.    I'm leaving you with some photos of part of the collection.    Cheers!         

Interesting because it is not a very flattering image of him.