GERMAN WWII MILITARY VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE very delicate in a mixture

very delicate in a mixture of Czech and German

A very rare piece of First War British equipment is the Allenbury patent gas face mask

where what appears to be a regimental number 2 may have been removed

unabused but with slight rusting around the edges and surface rust on the rear of the spade head

late war production

GERMAN WWII MILITARY VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE very delicate in a mixtureAs is well known, the VW Beetle was designed in 1937 by Erwin Komenda under Professor Ferdinand Porsche on the instructions of Adolf Hitler to produce a peoples car. Komendas aerodynamic styling included the split rear windows because curved glass was inordinately expensive. Stuttgart based coachbuilder Reutter created the buck for the classic Beetle shape that would remain virtually unchanged until 1967. On the May 26, 1938, Hitler laid the