Down the Cellar 149 - Big Reveal

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@rburrows7786 2 ай бұрын

Tom. I love you guys. Been fighting cancer for the past year, and it gives me something to look forward to every week. You guys are great. Opening the packages, I feel like a kid again at Christmas. Greetings to all

@mmotorhead 2 ай бұрын

I wish you all the best and a fast recovery.

@JohnnyV-daggers 2 ай бұрын

What a show! Great stuff! Very daggery! Love it. Thank for the shout out. Miss you guys. All the best, Johnny

@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, oh mightiest of Johnny's!

@johnkaplan1067 Ай бұрын

i have depply respect for him ,its a real collector ,this man shares and it’s so beautiful ,thanks from Belgium.

@dannyk1351 2 ай бұрын

Mr. Wittman, I think I speaking for EVERYONE when I say noone every gets mad when it's long. If it's 2+ hours it's the exact opposite, we're pumped(we always have the pause button). The only time I'm disappointed if it's around an hour or less. Cheers:)

@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria 2 ай бұрын

I've told him this so many times I've lost count. Might be time for a hearing checkup!

@лея-б1щ 2 ай бұрын

Excellent cutlasses and knives. Good morning mr. Wittman

@TerryC69 2 ай бұрын

Hello Team Wittmann! Here for 149!

@C2owner 2 ай бұрын

Havent missed a single one of the 149!

@kennethrouse7942 2 ай бұрын

Hi Tom, I am watching your video with a glass of red wine to keep my cholesterol down. In a couple of hours, I should be in negative digits. 😉👍🍷When you say a "pop," I normally think of how Justin Wilson, the Cajun Chef, meant it: "De sody pop wit' de foam on top." 🤣

@phil-em-in 2 ай бұрын

Morning Mr Whitman and Rob, another great show, you don't need to apologise for the length of the show. The longer the better in my book. All the best from Phillip Colley in the UK

@Inkman33 2 ай бұрын

Great show again guys!!!

@alexfish3120 2 ай бұрын

At some point you will have to just build a museum out of your house Mr. Wittmann, you must share your collections with the masses!

@kennethrouse7942 2 ай бұрын

A fantastic bronze! Icarus should have heeded the warnings of his father, Daedalus, and kept flying a little lower like he did! 😉👍

@DavidHuber63 2 ай бұрын

I love the smirk. 👍🏼

@kennethrouse7942 2 ай бұрын

Hi Tom, I believe the inscription in the front of the SS photo album reads, "To my dear Granny, for lasting memories.. Berlin, 1942." In the facing picture he is wearing the collar rank of SS-Oberscharführer; equivalent to Feldwebel in the Wehrmacht and SFC in our Army. Or, thereabouts. 😉

@TheArizonan 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the bronze is available for sale all over the internet even on Amazon. I think you were hoodwinked.

@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria 2 ай бұрын

It's true. You can even buy them new.

@franksmodels29 2 ай бұрын

Another great vid from the team Whittman 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻light’em up and have a drink

@madaboutmilitaria3630 2 ай бұрын

Good morning gents🍻🇦🇺

@thepaulhenderson 2 ай бұрын

Hi Mr. Wittmann, amongst other things I'm a graduate jeweler from GIA, and seen many mistakes in repairs, and I think I know whats going on with the Ernst Röhm SA dedication dagger at 36:36 This blade and crossguard look genuine, whats wrong with it is the original hilt was broken off, perhaps when it was decommissioned (after Night of the Long Knives) instead of grinding out the dedication, the blade was broken off at the hilt. However it happened, someone later brazed (look closely, its definitely been brazed) another, mismatched slightly wider, slightly longer hilt to the blade. And arrached it slightly off center. This new slightly off-center later attached hilt is the only thing making the centerline of the blade look off. If you measure the centerline of that blade from center to each edge it'll match correct. Its the wonky reattched (from some other blade) hilt thats caused all the issues. Once they tried to re-assemble and it was now too short, rather than going to all the work of removing, grinding, and re-attaching another replacement hilt, (which they probably didn't have) they then wallowed out the crossguard and wooden grip to get to fit tightly. Its a bad repair on a very rare dagger made worse in an attempt to salvage it. Anyway, keep em coming, another great video! Thanks!

@thomaswittmann8171 2 ай бұрын

Dear Mr. Henderson - This is Tom Wittmann and I usually don't respond to the video comments, but I wanted to tell you that your explanation of the fake tang being welded on to the Röhm blade after the fact is absolutely correct, and because the tang was welded off center of the blade it caused the need for the cutting out of the lower cross guard surface to make the blade fit. Great observation here and I congratulate you on your knowledge of these weapons. You are a man after my own heart! TTW

@thepaulhenderson 2 ай бұрын

@@thomaswittmann8171 ❤Thank you for your kind words, sir, but we're all just students in your Master Class! Thank YOU for you and your family's tireless work in preserving history! :)

@panman6197 2 ай бұрын

I believe that the hacos were numbered in red pen on the inside of the grip underneath the crossguard. My haco full rohm is number 750 for what thats worth. Thanks for the videos guys😁

@kennethrouse7942 2 ай бұрын

Re: the Imperial Veteran Banner.. I found a Catterfeld in Thüringen, but the crest is Sachsen. So.. good hunting!

@darrinrentruc6614 2 ай бұрын

Another great video by the Wittmann's, Thanks for removing the handle to reveal the fake blade. We need to learn from from Tom about how to identify fake blades, There are so many out there.

@rjb6327 2 ай бұрын

I used to know a guy that had a motel on LBI. We used to sleep and hang out under the building, drink beer and eat cold pizza, when we were in our teens. I got a drag racing ticket on LBI.

@rossdixon6126 2 ай бұрын

You guys are the best! Ross (England)🫡

@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Ross. Rule Britannia!

@rossdixon6126 2 ай бұрын

God bless America!

@migaudiblenofourdigitbullshit 2 ай бұрын

@@rossdixon6126 Alles for Deustchland! For we are Imperial.

@JohanJimmieEriksson 2 ай бұрын

As always you and ob are the best you'r so down to earth people.i like to have a pop now and then and a smoke but what the heck.we having a god time watching you its entertaning at the same time enstructiv😂

@larryburwell8550 2 ай бұрын

great items. loved the video

@DavidHuber63 2 ай бұрын

I love WC Fields too :)

@scotty450 2 ай бұрын

Nice blades.

@gebox2637 2 ай бұрын

Love the bronze and the long video.

@horstwessel3090 2 ай бұрын

WOW Killer XX Klaas Blade …. 😍 I don't see a (Robert Klaas) such in this condition for a long time! Perfekt first XX Dagger in a Collection! I wish i would find a Chicken (C.Bertram R or a Ed Gembruch) in exactly this Mint Condition …..it is like a Course ,when came one in five Years + the Blade is horrible!

@mikewinkelman7015 2 ай бұрын

Great daggers today 😊

@shaanali6965 2 ай бұрын

Ehrenmann. Der Typ trägt eine voll Gold Patek Phillippe Ellipse. Was ein Geiler Typ.

@mbbeach2282 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for showing a fake it's a big help.

@michaelbuchholz2164 2 ай бұрын

Watch your health, Mr. Wittmann. And ask your doc if you have a carpal tunnel syndrom that makes problems wirh your hand. 😊

@migaudiblenofourdigitbullshit 2 ай бұрын

You realize he is close to 90 years old, shaky hand is normal and usually nervous system related, can be genetically inherited. No problems, don't create something out of nothing.

@Bradydog-in7ut Ай бұрын

Tom; That book with pictures of the SS man, if any of those photos show any part of a concentration/ death camp and have yet to be.documented can be worth a good piece of mone as their are many historical societies looking for them. I’d be interested to know what you got for the booklet with all the pictures of Herman Goring’s in it. I’ve heard the key is to get the photos copywrited.

@michaelbuchholz2164 2 ай бұрын

The maker of your bronze ikarus Adolf Alexander Weinman was born in germany but went to the US as a boy.

@WittmannAntiqueMilitaria 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, sir!

@Александр-т3щ4и 2 ай бұрын

Hello, please show me the first type of the Rifle Union dagger.

@andrewr5575 2 ай бұрын

missing a fig leaf.

@StevenHatt 2 ай бұрын

Last few episode are far to Daggery for my liken Wittmann !!!!

@robertcochran3529 2 ай бұрын

Oh helllllll yeaaaaaaa

@sgt.tuborg6556 2 ай бұрын

The inscription at 5:05 is fake...

@johnlawson2984 2 ай бұрын

Please explain why.

@sgt.tuborg6556 2 ай бұрын

@@johnlawson2984 I am German...so I know German...and I wonder what the inscription is supposed to mean. Kraftf Park ???

@johnlawson2984 2 ай бұрын

@@sgt.tuborg6556 Kraftfahr Park is a motor pool. The inscription is not fake. This was a motor transport company.

@thomaswittmann8171 2 ай бұрын

@@sgt.tuborg6556 Dear Sgt. The inscription on the Army dagger cross guard refers to a "KraftFahr" which is a Motor Pole. If you are German, you should know this. This dedication is 100% original. Tom Wittmann