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This German paratrooper semi-automatic rifle FG 42-1 rifle still has its original bipod and spike bayonet. Offered at $7,460, it sold for $23,872.

Largest Private Collection of Normandy Invasion Artifacts Fetches Nearly $2 Million in Auction

NEW YORK -- Following two days of bidding in La Gua, France, as well as by telephone and Internet, a significant collection of more than 4,000 American, British, French and German military objects sold for a total of $1,937,000 at an auction run by Hermann Historica oHG of Munich, Germany.

Hermann Historica oHG handles sales of militaria antiquities, antique arms and armour, firearms, hunting collectibles, orders and decorations as well as objects of military history. The just-concluded auction far exceeded the house's most recent sale of World War II militaria, a total of $1,215,000 in sales.

The most recent auction sold a collection amassed by 81-year-old Maurice Bazin over his lifetime in Normandy, beginning in 1959 when a business client of his gave him an old German rifle. Most of the 4,000+ artifacts relate to the D-Day Normandy landings of the Allied army infantry and armored divisions.

Notable items from the sale included:

• Lot 8076: A German paratrooper semi-automatic rifle FG 42-1, stamped 'fsz' on top of the receiver (Henrich Krieghoff in Suhl), Calibre 7,92 x 57, serial number 1517, with a repainted non-matching 20-shot magazine. Cooking handle, sear and handle missing, minor frame damages.
• Lot 8278: A U.S. paratrooper officer jump dress uniform on mannequin, including a jacket made of olive cloth from a paratrooper unit, rare pattern with reinforcing patches on pockets and elbows (modifications for the units which jumped on Normandy on the 6th of June 1944), rank insignia, 101st Airborne Division insignia, complete with all press-studs, zip fasteners and belt, jump trousers of olive cloth with reinforced pockets and knees, complete with all adjustment straps, jump boots of brown leather, gas cuff title, ammunition bag, US M3 fighting knife in its leather sheath, EM belt, canteen with cover, TL 122 C flashlight. It sold for $30,586.
• Lot 8324: A U.S. 101st Airborne paratrooper helmet, identified by the ace of hearts from the 502nd PIR, retaining 50% of its paint and both insignia, period modified half-circle bale and M1 chinstrap. A second pattern liner added with leather padded chinstrap and small pattern bale. This famous unit was in the forefront of the U.S. parachute drops over Normandy on the 6th of June, 1944, especially in Sainte Mere l'Eglise where this helmet was found in the 1960s. It sold for $68,621.

The full catalogue for the collection and final list of selling prices is available online here.

Hermann Historica conducts at least two auction sales each year offering more than 10,000 collectors' items, with turnover in recent years of more than euro 10,000,000 (US $14,600,000).

It was founded nearly 50 years ago by Count Erich Klenau von Klenova and Baron von Janowitz in Nuremberg as an auction house for coins, orders, medals and other military objects.

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