Down the Cellar #5 - Man Versus Box
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2021
- Not unlike the Lernaean Hydra of old, the opening of one box seems to yield two more. In this edition of DtC, Tom takes up his drink, cigar, and (slightly dull) blade to do battle with a pile of apparently indomitable foes.
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Nice video! The Japanese sword at the end of the video is a ‘shin gunto type 3’ officer sword. This type is dating from 1944 to late war. This version was a more simple version of the shin gunto type 98, the type 98 is the standard issued officer sword. This 98 has brown colors at the scabbard and grip. This type 3 you have is all original and the colors can change like yours from green to some kind of grey. Also red shade is normal to find. At the end of the war these types where produced. You also have other versions (late war emergency) with strange wood scabbards. Also these are original.
Great video as always very good to see you also had a repro. Its good because we can see were the bad details are on the piece.
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Thank you for going to the trouble to explain this item fully!! I am hoping my credit card went through and I am the proud new owner!!!
@@luckybait thanks Jimmy. No problem, i am happy to help where i can. If you buy these swords its also very important to never ever touch the blade with your bare hands. Oil of your hands can damage the steel. Always oil it with some choji oil. You can check the tang for inscriptions like maker or date. Like mr wittmann is saying in this video this is a mass produced blade. Factory made, you will see a showa stamp and a date. Maybe a name of the maker. Very nice officer sword ether way!
Well, I’m excited to say that UPS tried to make a delivery Friday afternoon, but I was at work, at CMP in Anniston Al. Trying to get our M 1 Garand store ready to open again, after our Chinese COVID attack shut us down all year,,so far this year !!!! I am off Monday so I am extremely excited to see the brown truck that is coming from Mr. Whitman’s house!!! I can’t wait to add my very first Samurai sword to my collection of M1’s. The fact that it is a WW ll vintage excites me the most! Even though it is a mass produced machine blade,,,,, It will compliment the 1944 and 1945 M1’s I have very nicely! Mr. Whitman, Thank You !!!! I’m sorry now for even haggling just a little with you!!!! You sir are the God Father of Militaria in America,, and your knowledge and contacts are worth what ever you ask in price!!!!! A word to all the collectors,,, don’t haggle with the master,,,,, you will just feel cheap when you do!!!! Just be glad there is someone like Thomas Whitman you can do business with!!! He never charges you for a stupid question and that is worth the price of admission!!!!!
@MILITARIA COLLECTABLES BELGIUM - Thank you VERY much, MCB!
Thank you very much for the testimonial, Mr. Mitchell. I am really glad that sword went to a good home.
“For all I know there could be a dead chicken…” made me laugh. Thanks for the great video. Cheers
Don't worry about showing us bad or reproduction stuff, it’s very useful to see you point out the issues, that's invaluable information!
The Cellar show. This should be your new show. Another great video Mr Wittman. We feel like we are right there with you. Love these videos
I don't mind it taking some time for you to unwrap the items. It actually shows the validity of the packages the way they arrived in the mail.
Got your exercise for the day.
That "Postal dagger" was the best thing you can show.
Another good vid, Tom. You really know your stuff.
Yes, that was a happy accident. It's hard to have a 100% effective Fake Detector, but Tom really does know his daggers.
Really enjoy these cellar unboxing videos, never know what treasure awaits. Thanks for posting sir! 👍
I feel like a child on Christmas Eve every time you put out your "Unboxing-Vidios"
They are fun. I hope we get some more really dreadful pieces, because he really enjoyed tearing that bad Postal part.
Wow I worked under you 1972-1978 HVAC I was the person who collected the Arrowheads what year did you father pass?Now retired and live in Eastern Tennessee and still collect Indiam Artifacts.
Great video sir ! We love your cigars and drinking ! You have a great sense of humor sir ! You are high quality sir !
Any properly lived life demands at least a few vices.
These videos remind of the hours with my late grandfather, in his basement office. He would tell me stories from WW2, look at coins, stories of the Great Depression...
Thank you for these videos.
This kind of statement makes posting these videos even more worthwhile. Thank you, Mr. Stoup.
A bunch of popcorn to deal with… hahaha these episodes are the best!
Thank you mr wittmann for sharing this fantastic video.
Kevin
Between the second SS dagger ( the Boker) and the two 2nd model Luftwaffe's I was completely awed. Wow! So nice. Thanks Tom. Made a nice break in my day. I enjoy these unboxings immensely.
The Böker is awfully nice.
Another really enjoyable video. The postal unboxing was very informative, most collectors would have seen the faults anyways but perhaps not all of them. The more “bad daggers” you review for us the better. Collecting is buyer beware, but any information we can have is always useful. Thanks for doing these 👍
Great video again Sir. I was laugh ,when you started open up the box, Was like Russian Babuska .. Never see the end ;-))
Surgical unwrapping ... the tension is palpable. Great vid though. Keep 'em coming Mr. Wittmann.
The cellar is cool man keep em coming
I agree about seeing the fake junk. I'm sure it drives you crazy about a waste of your time but you do a really good job on explaining what is what. I'd rather watch you then think about taking 3k and throwing it out the window.
Thanks Tom another great Vid..Love the unboxing..
Great as always!
luv them unboxing vids
great stuff... opening drama... lot of suspense ... thank you, sir. .. more please ...
I enjoy watching these!
Love these.. Lots of knowledge.
More videos Mr Wittman. Amazing stuff! Regards from London!
Thank you very much, Mr. Cook.
You deserve more subscribers for this channel
My husband and I enjoy your videos so much. Again thank you for sharing Mr.Wittman. We hope to meet you at MAX.
Thank you very, very much. Please don't forget to stop by the table at the MAX.
Thanks Tom...Love that Boker SS. PS, you need a box opening assistant :)
So many videos lately, thanks🇦🇺
SUPER!! Keep them coming, both educational and just plain fun to watch! Thanks Tom!
man i love happy hour down the cellar
Now you are really really pampering us with so many videos in such quick succession. Thank you very much for the video as always! I love all the types of videos you make, but certainly the best ones are the lectures and I can’t wait for the next one of those. I realize they take much more effort and I'm not asking you to do them, but if you do, I will appreciate that very much as I'm certain many others do as well. I would absolutely love a video on other dagger types not covered so far or a lecture on some types of swords not covered so far. I'm very interested in other nation's daggers from the period as well, it's much harder to find information on those, although it's probably the same for you.
Anyway, thank you very much for entertaining and educating us as always!
Great stuff outside that chinese postal. I gotta look out for that garbage too in my antique hunting. Take care and hope to see you guys next year at the show.
Big fan watch all your stuff just wish I was able to afford more like him!
It's a learning experience video from the expert ,thank you very much Mr. Tom .
So much to learn. I guess that I the market, demand outstripped supply. Thank you for your knowledge.
Con usted se aprende todos los días, gran video!!!
Keep it coming with your great content!
Tom, you have always like a christmas time! So meny surprises!
Thanks Tom..always entertaining....I hope you include any bloopers....they are very funny too!!
I've been waiting for some good bloopers for years, but to date One Take Tom has managed to avoid most silliness other than his native variety.
Danke Herr collector👌
Keep them coming Tom
Whoops! Meant 1st model Luft's. Good stuff. N
Love these videos
Thank you, Sir.
well Tom, great items you received course not the postal. ive sold you several daggers and your always fair and honest at the shows. i look forward to your next unboxing. you certainly will receive the cream of the crop because of your great reputation for sure. with the passing away of Tom Johnson last july your the only true expert left!! lets say honest expert left!
You are very kind, Larry. Thank you.
I feel your pain about the plastic wrap.. I have received a few things that, after several minutes of careful cutting, I have to walk away before I either do a shot-putt with the item or start slashing at it like Kasper Guttman did the fake Maltese Falcon! LOL 👍😁
Very interesting 👍
Love all the videos there wonderful and me being a young novice collector I find every one to be very educational and very helpful and I hope I can make it to the next show in PA to meet you because I have a sword I would love to ask for your knowledge on. Best luck to you.
Thank you, Jacob. Absolutely bring your sword to the table; the gang would be only too happy to help you out.
There is a shroomer on his wall, I can't believe Mr. Wittmann is so based
He's a fun guy.
nice vid tom
These are to cool.👍🏼 Looks like most stuff comes USPS? I think a lot of time people pay a USPS sub station a fee to pack the items for them. Does protect things but makes it a pain in the A for you.😳 Not waisting anyone’s time Tom. Like watching Russian nesting dolls being taken apart.😎
Cool👍
I learned that lesson a long time ago as well i bought an army dagger thinking it was real until I had a buddy check it out
Who put the shroomjak picture on the wall?! That cracked me up 😁
He just grew there.
Tom, for novices like me, perhaps you could do a video showcasing a real Postal dagger for comparison? I'd love to see what a legit example should look like as I have never handled one. Thanks for all these excellent videos!
I will remind Tom to do just this in our next video.
@@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria you rock! I look forward with great anticipation 👍
Thomas ,, we love this stuff and nothing would be more exciting THAN A DEAD ☠️ CHICKEN 🐔!!!
Nice daggers, except the Postal, we appreciate your analysis exposing the fakes.
Now the chicken makes sense lol
What’s in the glass? Thanks love these videos
I’m enjoying your videos more and more. Keep ‘em coming.
What’s the drink? Bourbon and cola?
He's drinking (cheap rotgut) blended whiskey and ginger ale.
Ha! Good man! Why waste money on a single malt when there are so many daggers to buy.
They gave daggers to postmen? Bloody hell, we had our work cut out to beat these nutters…🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧
On the bronze: "1. Prize of the lottery (prize draw / raffle) of an Infantery-Regiment 2. War-Army-Night" The word "Kriegswehrnacht" is kinda hard to translate, some kind of festive army event with music, I found very little information about it, it was apparently something with military marching bands during the war, for morale etc
I am german. The reason you could not find something is because it said 2. Kriegsweihnacht. Which means the 2nd Christmas during the war. The first in 1939 and this one in 1940. So it came from a lottery done on the 2nd wartime christmas.
Nice Unboxing. ;0)) Grrüßle
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Looks like the guy just took packing wrap that you use for wrapping pallets, and went round and round with it? Looks like a whole roll? I guess that some people are more than paranoid about sending things like that thru the mail? They look like nice items. I could tell that the one was a dagger without even unwrapping it.
Mr. Wittmann doesn't go on vacation! We are Lucky! many thanks!!! Have a drink and a cigar for me! Do you have related items with Husky operation? thanks
Mr Wittmann,great video.I feel your pain on the wrap job.
Question, I bought a beat up RLB dagger "wkc "under $300. Were the tangs ever hammer forged in appearance...I hope its at least original for what i paid.
Thankyou
If you send this question (along with a picture or two) to Tom in an email he's be only too happy to reply. I'd ask him and relay his answer here but I don't have him handy at the moment.
I like samurai swords they are a beautiful thing to have for collection because the samurai were warriors of Japan and they used samurai swords you should look up the history of the samurai I read books about the samurai
I agree! Japanese military history is a very interesting subject.
@@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria yes it is
@@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria go ahead and look up the Japanese samurai history and don't forget to look up the history of the samurai sword
O..k..😬let's see..it *is* certified w/postage stamps📦🖼️🖼️🖼️ . . .
🤔there's this new-fangled thing called scissors...
✂️🦊🚬get yourself some, and get a bang out of life
Thomas , a personal question,if I may be nosey ! Did you decide to keep the No dancing sign that came through a couple of months ago?????
No. Those were returned.
Hi Mr Wittmann
Please can you help a fellow collector out
How do you get rid of slight pitting on the SA Blade thanks for any help given love the channel greetings from wales 🏴
The only real way to get rid of pitting is to grind/otherwise abrade it out, which I generally don't recommend doing. Even with slight pitting you're going to be removing material; done wrong or badly it can devalue the items more than the pitting itself does.
Of course this depends on the severity of the flaw and your skill with metalworking, but honestly I think these blades are best left undisturbed, with all the natural scars they've collected over the years.
Thanks Mr Wittmann much Appreciated for your help it’s not badly pitted just a few spots I’ll take your advice and leave as it is ….
Thanks Thomas 🤘🏼🏴👍🇬🇧
PS.... I would have thrown that dagger with the 50 lbs of tape against the frigen wall lol
The tape was ridiculous, but not too bad considering that we've gotten daggers wrapped in everything from used Subway foot long wrappers to soiled underpants.
@@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria 😂👍👍
Postal daggers are beautiful, but us lower end collectors just can't afford these items, alot of us new collectors are almost priced out of the hobby, a real shame.
What about using isopropyl alcohol to clean the blade?
I wouldn't use alcohol on any blade that had a darkened motto or trademark, but on anything else it should be fine if used carefully and sparingly. In the end it really depends on the sort of dirt you're trying to clean off.
Too much cleaning is rarely good, and aggressive cleaning is never good.
It's kind of funny, you've got expensive knives, daggers and swords, and you use a $2.00 box cutter to open your boxes, oh I get it (not tearing up the good stuff) but It just seems funny :)
More like a free boxcutter with a 2 year old blade, because heaven forbid you should "waste" anything!
@@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria There's nothing like "Free" :)
The fakes are interesting too
Min. 9.49 Führer Bronze Büste Gravur (engraving): I Preis der Lotterie der 6. Kompanie eines Infanterie-Regiments 2. Kriegsweihnacht 1940, Means: the first prize of lottery of the 6th company of an Infantry-regiment second. wartime christmas 1940.
What are you drinking ?
He's drinking "Imperial American Whiskey" which has been described as, “A cheap, rotgut, bottom shelf booze that drunks love.”
@@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria LOL
do you have the birthday party game "pass the parcel" in the US?...if you do then don't let Mr Wittmann play as it'll be a least another year before he finishes the game.
I had to look up pass the parcel, and have determined the United States ABSOLUTELY needs to have it. I think we've hit peak Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
I'm needing a scabbard and frog for a dress k98 bayonet etched any help will be appreciated
The dead chicken is in the mail. Should arrive shortly.
When a United States of America flag is displayed on a wall the field of stars are always supposed to be in the upper left of the flage. Would you please correct the orientation of your U.S. flag.
This will be rectified.