Tore’s Tuesday-real whatchamacallit
Tore’s Tuesday. I promised Joe to post obscure stuff every Tuesday, and so I will, today too.Here is real whatchamacallit, a vest I would call it, that I bought a…
Tore’s Tuesday-Internee Art
Tore’s Tuesday. I had planned to make a blog about an obscure British piece of kit, but when Sabine Declercq published her blog on the internment camps in the neutral…
Tore’s Tuesday-A German contract Frommer Stop.
Tore’s Tuesday. Once a again a strange and quite rare pistol. A German contract Frommer Stop.The Frommer Stop was designed and produced in Hungary and was approved for Hungarian military…
Tores Tuesday – The Mauz Family from Burladigen.
Tores tuesday - One of so many tragedies... The Mauz Family from Burladigen.Today my blog will to some extent go beyond WWI. You will soon understand why.Once upon a time…
Tores Tuesday-The Beholla pistol.
Tores Tuesday again. The Beholla pistol.I have previously written about brilliant but inherently flawed pistol designs, the Jägerpistole and the Dreyse model 1907. Both with good qualities that were, sadly,…
Tore’s Tuesday – Shooting yourself in the foot. The Dreyse model 1907 pistol.On route
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_E Tore’s Tuesday - Shooting yourself in the foot. The Dreyse model 1907 pistol.When we talk about shooting oneself in the foot it is most often figuratively, meaning doing something…
Tore’s Tuesday-Russian trench stock
Tores Tuesday again, and definitely an obscure and very rare object this time. This is a Russian trench stock with periscope for the M1891 rifle.Designed by Andrey Vaisilievitch von Modra…
Tore’s Tuesday – The incredible journey of a single rifle through history
Tore’s Tuesday - The incredible journey of a single rifle through history.One can safely assume that weapons used in a long and brutal war will have some dramatic history, but…
Tore’s Tuesday -The Raquette handgrenade
Tore’s Tuesday again, and with an obscure item this time too, a French one. The Raquette handgrenade.There were a myriad of handgrenades used during WWI (A A Gustaf Bryngelson has…
Tore’s Tuesday-Ottoman Empire
Uh, oh... Tuesday again, and therefore a new blog for Tore’s Tuesday... No rest for the wicked.I have already taken you to Germany’s ally, the crumbling and dusty Austro-Hungarian empire.…