Featured 1916 Gen. Pershing 'invasion of Mexico ' 30.06 training blanks? WWII Ship ID case for pilots!

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by journeymagazine, Dec 21, 2024 at 12:23 AM.

  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Found these yesterday while at my regular thrift store!

    Image search and key word search didn't turn up anything similar on the General Pershing training blanks - could these be real? Or vauluable, like stuff found near civil war battlefields?

    It was donated with the WWII model ships case - which I've found was used to teach pilots how to identify friend from foe ships, so they didn't bomb the wrong one(!), so maybe it was from someone who collected military stuff & possibly real?
    Thanks for any help!

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  2. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

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  3. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

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    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

  5. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    J Man-You've got this tech thing down.
     
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  6. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Does anyone have any idea if this is real?
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  7. Boland

    Boland Well-Known Member

    Very cool finds. The training model ships are great. And the blanks have a interesting story.
     
  8. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    No reason they wouldn’t be real but I don’t think you’d be looking at a ton of value. Unless it’s a rare caliber/make and there’s a few munitions collectors that need to have them. Only one way to find out, throw them up as an auction item. Even if they were live and tied directly to the battle site with documented authenticated provenance I don’t think they’d bring a ton. Blanks from a camp with just one persons story are still interesting but probably more interesting than valuable. If they were mine I’d expect $20-$50 but you never know.
     
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  9. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Thanks I appreciate the advice. Your right there's no way to authenticate + they're blanks, but fingers crossed because I may see what an auction does!
     
  10. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I don't want to discourage you, but there are sellers who create a wonderful back story for an ordinary item. Some guy with a metal detector finds some ammunition...even he doesn't know if they have an actual connection with Pershing and the invasion.
     
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