Gestapo??

[Wound-badge]

Hi!

Is there anyone that knows if this is a orginal Gestapo or not??Regards

Ronny.

[Dennis Redler]

Ronny,
I don't know about GESTAPO, but it look exactly like a Spring Cosh that was issued to US OSS and British SOE agents.
Here's a photo taken from a government manual reprinted in the book,OSS Weapons and Equipment, subtitled Spy Devices of WW2 by H. Keith Melton.
If so, it is a very rare and highly desireable collectable as spy weapons hardly turn up.
Dennis Redler

[Wound-badge]

Thanks Dennis, interesting..

Regards

Ronny

[bluered12]

@Dennis
What kind of OSS firearms does your book list? I´m very intereted in this topic especially in suppressed firearms.
Thanks in advance

[Phaethon]

It may not be that old...

Enter the 1970s

With crime reaching all-time high levels, Citizens began to scramble for anything that could be carried and used for Self-defense. There existed at the time in magazines such as "Soldier of Fortune," these hardcore advertisements on the latest concealed Edged and Impact Weapons. Ranging from brilliant to almost perfectly stupid.

Classic brass knuckle patterns were sold as, "Brass Paperweights," the concept of an SOE/OSS "Spring Cosh," a telescoping set of coil springs with a metal head was marketed by a German Firm in two sizes, "Sipo" and "Blitz." Later, a Japanese Firm would market the "Kiyoga Baton."

See: http://www.donrearic.com/covertweapons.html for more.

K.
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Ken Cocker, London

[Dennis Redler]

I'll gladly PM you a list Bluered.
Dennis Redler

[MadJim]

I bought one from Lancer Militaria in the 80's. It was advertised that is was identical to the original truncheon. I actually used it on the job as a policeman, but a supervisor saw it and said it was "unauthorized equipment" and that I could get fired if I used it.

[Brig]

I actually had the chance to buy a Gestapo rubber trunchean once. it was shaped a bit differently though. The man wanted offers starting 200 and up, and I knew it would get ridiculously high so I didn't bother