Down the Cellar 10 - Bayonanza

[@johnlawson2984]

……even my wife watched this video….😃

[@dunkirchen1940]

And now she wants to buy one of those sawback firefighter bayonets, right? :D

[@garycousino4016]

Know wonder why you married her

[@ronklug6395]

Great unboxing video. Some interesting items again. Thanks for sharing.

[@mikeschultz8509]

Just loved the story about the Goring bejeweled dagger in the bank vault. That's great!

[@johnd2722]

Amazing, that Bob Waite collection is unreal. The story’s you tell can never be duplicated. Thank you.

[@davidhuber9418]

time with you is not wasted Tom, thank you!

[@CONGRYU]

I like the windex box that was funny sir ! You have a great sense of humor ! Thank you sir

[@ubbe1913]

Viel danke Herr Wittmann. You are amazing person with great collection. I wish You all the Best!

[@dennisrountree5376]

Great video. Best yet ! Stories were unreal.!

[@joeguzman3558]

Probably the best video I've seen in KZbin , always a pleasure watching and learning from mr. tom .

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

Waste our time? Are you kidding us? That was FANTASTIC ... These are the stories that all of you legends in the hobby have that are near and dear to you men for very personal reasons and sometimes, often in fact, the general public is never apart of these intimate memories and stories. So for me at least, it's an honor that you would take the time to share this story with your fans. I sat here at my desk watching your body language closely Mr. Wittmann and you can clearly see how emotionally effected this story had on you. Those photos, what an incredible collection. Walking into that space, if history did not take a firm hold of your emotions and you were not initially overwhelmed and blinded by history, something was wrong with you. And you're right, WW1/2, the artifacts, the stories, all of it for 99.9% of us, is nothing more than a very keen interest steeped deeply in history. Collection these items is often a very personal and intimate affair that most outsiders would not understand. It's a tangible way for us to see these items ( and if you're lucky, hold one ) and wonder in silent thought of who these men were and what fears or joys or plans they might have had for their future. Just recently Mr. Wittmann, that Cigarette Case that was given to the King Tiger tank driver by his crew has captured and stirred my love of history and wonderment like you would not believe. I literally spent days here and there watching videos on KZbin about King Tigers and anything closely related. I've never had the money to collect anything WW2 related ( I am a disabled 1st Gulf War Vet 129th Heavy Transportation Osage Kansas ) but I find myself wishing I at least had one item in my possession to treasure, and not as a Nazi sympathizer, which is ridicules, but as a student of history. I myself can imagine this tank driver now, in his King Tiger tank, the deafening roar of the engine, the steady clanking of the tracks, the heavy smell of exhaust, gas and oil fumes, the static communication coming from his headset as he was given orders to move forward, halt, turn this way or that way, the strong smell of gunpowder from the spent shells, and how proud he must have been with that cigarette case in his front pocket of his tankers outfit and the immense bond and solidarity he must of had with his Brothers in that King Tiger tank all those many years ago. Sometimes I can even imagine I have this little inscribed cigarette case tucked away in my box of treasures in the closet where I keep my birth certificate, first drivers license, a few old coins my Grandmother gave me, and most importantly, a picture I drew for my Mother as a child. I drew my Mother as a giant turtle and my Brother, myself and my 2 sisters are on her back as she carries us which I must have drawn in the very early 70's when I was 6 or 7 years old. One of these days I hope to have just one special piece of history like that Cigarette Case as a direct link with these men from WW2 and I honestly don't think I would ever need anything more.

[@wildweasel3760]

Thanks for the great story in the beginning awesome photos too.

[@joelpaskauskas8485]

What a great story about the dagger! Thanks

[@CONGRYU]

Wow what a great story !! I really appreciate these videos sir !! Thank you very much !!

[@erichusayn]

Wow. Those pictures are mind blowing. Thanks for sharing!

[@xkmendlt4290]

Another great one. 👍🏼Awesome story about the collection at the beginning. Always interesting to see stuff from HG. Display case cleaning box too funny..😂😂😂

[@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria]

Much appreciated!

[@thelooch9546]

Mr.Wittmann,you are an amazing storyteller.I have been a great admirer of your work for many years,but only recently stumbled upon your channel and cannot stop watching ! The videos are extremely entertaining-being both exciting and relaxing at the very same time ! I hope to be able to someday meet you at a show, and purchase something from your incredible assortment of treasures one day in the not too distant future.Keep up the great work,and all the best to you and those close to you sir.🗡🇩🇪🗡🇩🇪🗡🇩🇪

[@connorfulkerson127]

Love the down the cellar videos! The Bob Waite collection had me in awe!

[@tomstreet5266]

The chicken in the background is the best!!!! Love the video.

[@madaboutmilitaria3630]

Great story, glad you told it🥃🇦🇺

[@Spencer859]

I love watching these unboxing videos...great content. Keep it coming.

[@terryschmidt8259]

Loved the max show video.

[@rjb6327]

Great story. Not boring. It's like Christmas morning.

[@ar6985]

Best video series on KZbin!!

[@lraubal9851]

Another great video Tom, you look like a surgeon the way you zip open some of those bags....lol. I must say the Göring silver was impressive.

[@t.jjohnson6317]

Thanks Tom i love xmas in Sept. And thank-you for your time and talent. God bless

[@hooper4581]

Great stuff as always Sir. Always a pleasure to watch thanks for sharing

[@dmcm3200]

Tom, great as usual.

[@Nighthawk1966]

Great stuff Wittman, you do a great job and are a treasure to the hobby for sure !! Love your videos immensely!!

[@gebox2637]

This stuff could never bore me to death. So fascinating can’t get enough.

[@axelwerker4775]

The best video I've seen in KZbin , always a pleasure watching and learning from you heer wittmann!

[@synchrome62]

Wonderful video Mr Wittmann! Thank you for sharing the collection and story of Ron Distelhorst. Bob Waite’s is the most extensive collection I’ve ever seen, absolutely fantastic. I understand why you wanted to take a moment and share this. And I’ve also never seen a (simulated) stag gripped fireman’s bayo. Really interesting! Great job on this video gents!!! Greetings from Jerry (Chicago).

[@cavemaster]

Love your videos Wittmann

[@skigdividerx4991]

Great story! Very interesting!

[@collinblubaugh3094]

Great video and story. Thank you for the upload.

[@KT-ur7pi]

Yes, absolutely amazing, and always enjoyable to listen to Tom tell a story 👍

[@nicksmith7079]

Wonderful story!

[@rbarker1706]

Some solid and clean bayonets. A very good unboxing with a couple of nice little surprises. Keep up the good work!

[@Wolshanze]

All ways great to hear from you Tom long life to you “Prost” !!! Would love to meet you one day ..

[@kmac4124]

loved the story ! wow !

[@nicksmith7079]

Thank you sir

[@robertmedina5850]

Beautiful things feels like Christmas

[@leonardcroft1467]

Thanks Mr. Wittmann Love Your Unboxing Videos !!

[@kennethrouse7942]

Hi Tom, Again thanks for a fun time down in the "crypt". I got a kick out of the Bob Waites story; a little reminiscent of the Max Ammann story as regards the descriptive adjective. 👍😁 My late father grew up on a farm in the first quarter of the 20th century and he always told me that "we used everything on the pig except the squeal." Well, the Göring inkwell is living proof!" And, can't you hear the cabaret singer Bobby Short belting out, "Gimme a pig foot (and a bottle of beer)🎶🎶? LOL Until the next time, Best, Ken

[@dunkirchen1940]

Can't believe I missed this yesterday!

[@bigb.2511]

really great stuff! Have you ever thought about doing a livestream?

[@andrewplam9945]

I wait until the evening to watch so I can also enjoy a nice drink with you. Great videos. One day I’ll maybe able to afford more than belt buckles and other “budget” items

[@otasandersson6833]

Thank you MR, WIttmann for the great videos you make i wil never ever get tired of the unboxing militaria! like christmas! keep uploading more of this please! what are you smoking? Italian cigars? i am here in sweden puffing on a good Toscano Antico Clint Eastwood spagehetti western cigar! Cheers

[@gebox2637]

I bet those days dagger hunting for dr. Bob were awesome. I love dagger hunting just on my small scale.

[@mr.greenacres]

Coffee and Wittmann!! Great stuff as always and boy that was a huge collection in the pictures very nice!!

[@OUT9]

Love the unboxing

[@vivianbookstaber1068]

i knew Bobby Waite and sold several items to him in the 90's. i saw his beautiful collection he had which was show cased in his business and can tell you my eyes flew out of my head looking at it. sad to say when he passed it was a loss to the collecting community.

[@juanpablogomez7030]

Gracias estimado caballero!!!!!

[@trapper-paul]

Love all the goring items. Really good unboxing I'd say!

[@militariacollectablesbelgium]

Wow i am a bayonet guy myself so i love this haul you got ! Also very nice story in the beginning! Please share more storie is you have them it is very interesting!

[@radiodalbunker8603]

wow...i always wait for a down yhe cellar video! Thank you so much for permit me yo enter into your world! 😉

[@type2280303]

This was again a very interesting video Mr Wittmann !! Absolutely enjoyed it because there where some very nice pieces there :o

[@leonardjanda6181]

Sir I agree ☝️ you’re amazing , and truly a gentleman 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@johnlawson2984]

Tom, take a closer look at that portepee on that Justice Officials bayonet, it could be correct, just faded. Justice Officials are two gold twist cords with one crimson twist cord.

[@michaelbronsteijn8492]

Heel veel sterkte en beterschap Robby ❤ Top afleveringen weer, geweldig 👊 Wauw wat een mooie dolk! Mooi verhaal, i love it, that's real life!

[@brianohanlon5061]

that hunting lodge ink well, wonderful..... that is a great item.....do you think the man who owns that will swap it for 47 crazy rubber chickens.....???.......maybe. ?

[@rocco74superhuman45]

Awesome video Sir;-) I started collecting couple years ago, and now have 4 x SS dagger one with half inscription , one with SS number . 6 HJ Daggers . and other Daggers . I am not Rich ,but believe its good investment for the future. Take care . Still have the TeNo and Hewer for sale if you interested

[@erkkiroosileht3341]

Hello Thomas! You have christmas again and so meny gifts! Wether the poems are in the head?

[@michaeldellinger3377]

Nice video I watching your video

[@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria]

Thank you so much 😀

[@christianhuber7570]

Great video, thank you for Gruesse aus Leipzig

[@darrellenglish2704]

Ron was a Great Guy

[@austinwhiteside8486]

I watched the max show video looked like the goods showed up

[@tuckt6180]

Whatever became of the collection ?

[@jonbush2370]

Damn!.. I wanted to hear that it disappeared from the safety deposit box.

[@1981bessa]

Nice

[@kadiabarenbaum7252]

Even back in the day blacklisting was not an uncommon practice..and very hard to recover from once targeted...for good or ill ...if falsely accused...

[@Unterbilk]

Düsseldorf grüßt.mr.wittman.thanks.i Wish you can der See my collection.

[@brianohanlon5061]

yeeeeeeharrrrrr wish i owned that wonderful dagger folks, worth over a million dollars... boy.... i would sell it tomorrow...... i could then buy myself a lot of crazy rubber chickens with that......yeeeeeeehoooooooooooooo.

[@allgood6015]

Some people just watch Rick and Morty to myauch...😸

[@mugshot749]

Why would a fireman need a bayonette ?

[@Omnihil777]

It's a shame that some public perspective confuses collecting 3rd Reich HISTORICAL memorabilia & militaria with beeing a Nazi. Why don't they mix up a Maya researcher as a supporter for human sacrifice or roman reanactment with christian-killers? I'll never get it, we have to clear this up with open communication without any room for misunderstandings in my opinion. By the way: It's even worse here in germany. You have to be VERY careful, who do you tell, a long-time friend of mine lost two jobs (!) because he collects and trades old medals and coins and only SOME of 'em are from the 3rd Reich. He won't tell anyone anymore & doesn't trades anymore personally anywhere in and around northern germany or lets his friend do it, it's sad, he's as far away from a nazi as anyone can be. Prejudices are very real here. Anyway, thank you for another 2-cup-of-coffee-video, Mr. Wittmann. It's like a small christmas-feeling, your Dtc-videos, and I'm sure your channel will grow and grow. 👍 👍 👍 PS: And OH, you hanged the chicken LOL PSS: What a dagger, the Göring dagger, what a jewellers masterpiece. Wow.

[@JoelJurvakainen]

Well, it's a relatively recent historical event that touched westerners a lot because it was so tragic. When we talk about an event in which millions perished, it is very, very sensitive, and some people can't understand why others collect this stuff. Governments want to make sure it doesn't happen again, and sometimes they can get a bit too strict, but it's understandable. Maybe in 50-100 years it will be so forgotten that no one cares anymore.

[@Omnihil777]

​ @Joel I understand that, but to drive someone out of his job and in the other case outright firing him just because he collects 3rd reich stuff (and many other historical memorabilia) is not more overreacting, it's not right and unjust. He never told anyone on both jobs, in both cases they got to know it over other channels, and where he was fired was the official reason another, but obviously not the real one - they even told him freely, that they don't want "Nazis" there. That's BS, he's the opposite of a nazi. OK, it's a few years ago, the second case was around 2005-2008, I forgot, when exactly, but in my mind, extreme oversensibility makes things worse in any (!) case, genderwise, racewise, statuswise and and and. The wicked thing is he actively tells people (children too) what happened during the 3rd reich, all the awful things, and got judged for that. That IS not OK, that you have to shame yourself for collecting / trading this stuff. (He personally doesn't care anymore about those two occasions, he's in early retirement). To his displease he attracts the occasional real nazi, too. In my mind (not his) we shouldn't forget how and why the nsdap got such a following and what the real social circumstances were in the 20s/ 30s/40s, the social mechanics, we're all involved here somehow, my grandfather was in the party and fought, the grandfather of my wife was a nazi judge, a real wicked one, 2 uncles of me died on the front, my mother was born in 36 and lived through the war and the time afterwards, but the slightly one-sided story we heard and learned in school in the 80s and 90s isn't the whole picture. And it's important to see the whole picture, or you're in danger to distort the truth, in my opinion. But I disgress. Just wanted to make my point why it is unjust to judge someone, who just collects and explains.

[@thelooch9546]

@@JoelJurvakainen Sir,with all due respect,do you REALLY believe the statements you have written here with everything going on in western countries at the moment ? Clearly, “ governments” or more importantly, corporations who CONTROL most governments, are blatantly displaying a full on authoritarian power grab that most of us would have NEVER dreamt possible in our lifetime.If you think they really “ care” about the people within their borders, and are literally using mass censorship to stifle any possible “ thought crimes” that they deem a threat to their system of control,you are sadly mistaken and seem very naive.Rest assured that ANY content or speech that they wish to stifle or put down is in some way a threat to their system,no matter how minuscule.Then you have to ask yourself why that would be.Please do yourself a favor and look into our current reality before you make such silly claims.Thank you.

[@skigdividerx4991]

I'm disappointed my bayonet and Bino's didn't make a basement opening though.. 😏😏

[@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria]

I'm not sure how that happened. I'm sorry.

[@skigdividerx4991]

@@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria Oh I'm kidding! They weren't big items so I didn't think they would make an unboxing video. Enjoyed the story about the hunting dagger though!

[@thilgu]

Wittmann, you need to turn off the advertisements on these videos. I got like 4-5 commercial breaks! We pay you for the militaria!

[@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria]

Unfortunately the few pennies those ads bring in are used to pay the (extremely poor) video editor.

[@shimmycoccapop8808]

Shroomjack

[@BACCHUS777]

Ah, the rare and desirable 3rd Reich paper towel to match the toilet paper!

[@jacobantonelli]

shrigma thumbnail!

[@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria]

Yep. He's a fun guy.

[@thilgu]

Makes me upset that such an evil hag of a woman can just take possession of a collectors item. She didnt do any research for it, never took care of the piece. Just swooped in for the cash.

[@midnightteapot5633]

You may remember the great British bayonet collector and author , Anthony Carter . He had a bad break up too back in the day and had to sell most of his massive collection. Women have no mercy ! When your down they will put the boot in .

[@Марка-и5л]

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