Map Boards

This is my lucky year. After the Map Tables and the Plotting Set came home the most hard-to-find item obtained. Searching it for nearly a decade now the KB34 (Artillery Map board with a RDP protractor) had reunited with its family. This board is smaller than the Heer Kartenbrett in 35 x 24cm. Made by…
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Recently obtained an interesting map board from a post for sale on the ‘WWII German Signal and communications Equipment’. Maker Franz Kuhlmann Wilhelmshaven (same maker of my PIU 700×700 version one map table) and the WaA 278 army eagle proved that it is an issue item. It is a big piece of board without folding…
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Obtained this sweet little purse recently, made of paper like material with two iron straps and four brackets for locking, with D.R.G.M. marking on the strap but in two different fronts. Possibly for transferring case or important documents, there is a uneven hole at the right end of the top iron strap may be intended…
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Obtained this little map board recently, actually I am searching for large folding map board for long time, but still in vain. Never saw this before, should be a self purchase item. Very well made and in good condition. However German do made everything complicated. There are two sliding metal straps on the wooden frame,…
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  This brown map board was suspected been repainted after the war, it was sold at a ‘Friendly Price’ from a Netherlands shop.  Same size as the normal map board but in all brass hardware, and heavier than the standard board, as there are extra wooden straps sealing top and bottom at right side with…
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This is one of the hard-to-find items on my list, searching for this for near a decade and found it last year. A text book example map board in good condition, only two clear straps missing. Very happy with it.