DD Fossils
Antiquities & Militaria I
All the items on this page are being sold by Shanna's Attic, a sister company of DDFossils. Other than the sender's name on any invoices and packaging there is no difference in service, with Shanna's Attic being owned and operated by Shanna Davis.
Vietnam War Flechettes
Used in artillery shells during the Vietnam War 3 of these little metal darts come housed in a 4x6 cm display case.
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Space Shuttle Columbia Collection
A rare collection of items that were flown in space on the Space Shuttle Columbia. The pieces comes from missions #9 and #87. The Columbia was lost with all hands just a few years after mission 87. Included are pieces of cushion fabrix, rubber o-ring and mylar sheeting. Housed in 4 display cases within a storage box as shown. All are genuine pieces purchased from NASA auctions.
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WWII Battle of Britain Spitfire Collection
Displayed in the same manner as the Columbia collection listed above, this set is for 4 pieces of wreckage from Spitfire P9469 which was shot down during the Battle of Britain in October 1940. Includes melted rubber, wire pieces and fuselage fragments.
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WW2 Parachute Silk Collection
This collection is for two pieces of parachute silk from the Second World War. Each comes with a professionally printed identification card and is housed in a plastic 4x6 inch slip case. Included in the collection is a piece of German parachute from The Battle of the Netherlands in 1940, and a piece of American parachute from Operation Market Garden in 1944.
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WW2 Mosquito DZ609 Wreckage & Parachute Silk
Mosquito DZ609 was shot down on June 12, 1944 during the Second World War. This collection contains a piece of the fuselage and parachute silk collected from the wreckage at the time. Housed in a display case as shown.
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50 Second World War WW2 Original Photographs
Taken by German soldiers on the Eastern Front and elsewhere between 1939 and 1945, each collection consists of 50 original, one-off photographs. All are genuine 80 year old prints with no modern reprints. Each is a unique record from the Second World War. Can be dated and/or inscribed on the reverse or blank. Can show all aspects of military life - portraits, parades, off duty, marching, barrack life, summer, winter, mud etc.
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WW2 Second World War Bandage Collection
Housed in 3 separate slip cases with professionally printed identification cards, this collection consists of pieces of American, British and German medical bandages. Each swatch came from a roll of bandage issued, but obviously never used, during the war. An interesting collection.
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First World War Zeppelin Collection
A rare collection of relics collected during the First World War from the wreckage of two shot down German Zeppelins. Ex museum collection materials. Rare.
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WWI First World War Collection
A neat collection of genuine First World War items. Included in the collection are a postcard written by a soldier in the trenches that was mailed home to loved ones (dated between 1914 and 1918), a cavalry horse shoe nail, shrapnel balls and bullets from the battlefields of Paschendale and The Somme, an English penny, and a cigarette silk that came from one of the mllions of cigarette boxes opened in the trenches. Each item also is accompanied by a professionally printed identification card. A fantastic collection on genuine artifacts from WWI - no reproductions are included.
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WWI Battle of the Somme Shrapnel Display Piece
Each one of these pieces of shrapnel was collected from the battlefield of the Somme and represents just a fragment of one of the millions of shells fired during this battle. Each has been sprayed with a protective anti rust coating so they can be displayed. Thought provoking pieces from a terrible battle.
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Battle of The Somme Barbed Wire
Collected from the battlefields of the Somme this piece of barbed wire is housed in a ~6x8 cm display case and has been sprayed with an anti rust preservative. Thought provoking relic that 100 years ago proved catastrophic to the British forces.
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English Civil War Musket Balls
We currently have musket balls available from the sites of several English Civil War battles of the 1640's. Shown below is an example of one of these. This purchase us for one musket ball from each of the following sites: Marshall Elm 1642, Marlborough 1642, Grafton Regis 1643, Newbury 1644, Basing House 1644, Naseby 1645 and Preston 1648 - 7 sites in all.
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Battle of Waterloo Musket Ball
A large Brown bess musket ball collected from the Waterloo battlefield in the 1980's. You would not want to have been hit by one of these! Each measures between approximately 17 and 17.5 mm
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Titanic Coal in Display Case
A genuine piece of Titanic coal salvaged during the 1994 expedition to the wreck and acquired directly from the salvage company. Housed in a 4x6 cm display case and comes with a professionally printed post card that shows the original purchase documents and provenance of the piece. Guaranteed genuine.
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Carpathia Coal - The Ship That Rescued Titanic's Survivors
To accompany the coal listed above, this is for a piece salvaged from the 1918 wreck of the Carpathia (sunk during the First Wrold War). Housed in a display case and comes with an identification card showing the full provenance of the piece. Guaranteed genuine.
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100 Vintage Black and White Photographs 1900 - 1940
One lot of 100 randomly selected photographs of people, places and things dating from around 1900 to 1940 (some older, others more recent). Anything can be in here but each collection is not loaded with a particular type. Portraits and images of buses, trains or other such hobby photos are rare. Most are people out and about doing things, buildings, and foreign countries. Great to sort and for education if researching history, clothing types etc.
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1860s Fossil Lithograph Prints
Two nice 1860's original lithographic plates from a disbound book on the Devonian fossils of New York. Every one is different and suitable for framing. There are two per purchase.
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Roman Coins 3rd and 4th Century
Each purchase is for a good quality Roman coin dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. A wide variety of types, mints and emperors are available but all are chosen at random to keep the price lower. Great additions to any collection.
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Neolithic Stone Tool Collection
Three nice Neolithic age arrow heads in a display case from North Afirca. Each is around 5,000 years old. Three different arrow heads are included in the collection and several types are available. If you order between one and five display cases we will guarantee that every arrow head will be different. Display case measures approximately 5 x 8 cm
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Space Shuttle Columbia Original Launch Negatives/Slides
A rare collection of original slides for the launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia. We have a few sets of these, but each has completely different slides as each one is unique. These slides were taken by a member of the general public at one of the observation stations a few miles from the launch pad. Rare.
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