CATALOG #122 posts THURSDAY March 7
at 3:00 PM US Central Time

So, what do you need to know about this issue?
As is our practice, the new stuff will under the very mysteriously titled category NEW LISTINGS. Everything else that is currently available will be listed in the regular categories.  If you have had your eye on an item that had not yet sold when we closed down #121 to prep the site for #122, it will be there when #122 opens up, but listed in it's native category.
View the Preview from the link which will appear on the home page.  There will be an early preview for Insider Members as usual, in this case one opening at 12:00 pm on March 6.  The preview will be open for everyone on March 7, also at 9:00 am.  The preview link will appear under the big catalog button on the home page.  Depending on your browser, you may need to refresh.  To see the link, you will need to be logged in.  (Not visible to guests.)  During the preview period, we are often still uploading images, finding and correcting errors, reshooting items where necessary, and making other small changes.  If you don't see photos of a particular item, check back later.  Remember: the preview is just that - a preview.  Instead of a "BUY" button, a countdown to the catalog opening is displayed.  At 3:00, start from the home page (item pages don't pop up with a buy button at 3, they just reset to the home page.)   Also please note - we do not take calls until the site is open for sales.  If you want to beat your pals to the item you want, the fastest way to do it is to be logged in and press the "buy" button yourself, rather than calling us and asking us to press a the buy button for you.
AGM NEWS & 122 Highlights
We selfishly took some time off in 2023 (first vacation in ages!), but a lot of that time was also spent crafting a new venture that we will be announcing soon.  That one already has an epic tale attached - a trip to pick up a collection that ended up involving hours spent in the rain with some outstanding Delaware State Troopers who helped us to discover that our prospective consignors was not returning phone calls because he had in fact died while we were en route to his residence.  Lots of lessons to be learned from that adventure, some of which we will be sharing on the site later this year.
Reinventing AGM from the ground up is exciting, but we also need to keep the lights on and the collections flowing.. so I decided to take Catalog 122 as an opportunity to remedy the situations where I have failed to live by my own policy "you can't become your own best customer."  Or from pop culture: "Don't get high on your own supply" (Scarface 1983).  In order to keep my own collector's impulse from getting in the way, I have adopted a fairly limited collections policy.  But... I will confess - a number of extremely interesting things come in here and though they aren't necessarily 'kept', they just might hang out for an excessively long time looking great in the office before finally making their way to a catalog.. or not. There are new aquisitions in this catalog of course, but it is mostly comprised of a surprising number of pieces that I have been hanging on to for years (or decades in several cases!)  This catalog also includes a number of US WWII A-2 flight jackets that do actually fit the collection policy and are pieces I had no plans to sell, but after paying retail+ for several stunning examples recently, the business must be repaid, thus some of the 'keepers' are now available for sale.
We took a very unscientific poll on our Facebook page and found that our customers who follow us there were pretty much equally divided when asked if they would prefer the catalog to open before or after Show of Shows.  We normally release a winter / spring catalog right before (to a chorous of good-natured groans), so this time we will give the 'after' lobbyists their turn.  Here some highlights:

Those are just a few of the images that appealed to me while cruising through Anna's photos.  So what else will you find on Catalog 122?

• AEF 185th Aero Squadron Pilot's Uniform Group with Painted Trunk & Exceptional Insignia
• WWI Mark I 1918 Trench Knife & Scabbard: French Aulion Maker
• USMC 2nd Marine Raider's Uniform, 'Gung Ho' Knife & Souvenir Group: Sgt. David Hamm
• Civil War Federal McDowell Pattern Forage Cap
• Civil War Federal Cavalry Musician's Mounted Service Shell Jacket
• Civil War Federal Forage Cap with 6th Corps Badge
• Civil War US Artillery Shell Jacket: Purchased from Bannerman in 1953
• Civil War 16th New Hampshire Letter & Family Photo Group: A Story of Despair and Disease
• WWII US Army D-Day Assault Vest: Harian
• WWII US D-Day War Correspondent's Personalized Helmet: Howell Dodd
• AAF 8th Air Force 755th Bomb Squadron Navigator's Painted A-2 Flight Jacket
• SS Officer's Sword: Paul Müller
• Garde du Corps Enlisted Helmet with Parade Eagle
• AAF 12th Air Force 487th Bomb Squadron Painted A-2 Flight Jacket
• AAF 15th Air Force 514th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket with Winged Boot Insignia
• WWII 30th Division 'Roosevelt's SS' Identified Uniform Group
• 'Normandy' Camouflage Single Decal Heer M40 Helmet
• NSFK Flyer's Knife: Helbig
• AEF 332nd Infantry Named Uniform with Numbered Disc: George Mulhollan Co. L
• AEF 35th Division Soldier's Elaborate Map Painted Helmet: Cover of Kimball's "Trench Art"
• WWI 'Enemy Alien' Detention Camp Bone Art: Learn To Suffer Without Complaining (Signed)
• AAF 8th Air Force 510th Bomb Squadron Painted A-2 Flight Jacket: Shoot Jerry You're Faded
• Prussian Field Artillery Regiment 44 Kugelhelm & Matching Camouflage Cover
• British WWI No. 1 Mk. II Hand Grenade
• British WWI No. 2 Mk. II Grenade
• British WWI Army Cyclist Corps Elaborate Painted Helmet
• WWII USN Solomons Campaign Logistics Officer's Personalized Camouflage Helmet & Archive
• AAF 14th Air Force 375th Bomb Squadron A-2 With Layered Leather Insignias
• Czech WWI Legion in France Volunteer's Uniform Lot with Overcoat and Beret
• Imperial Russian WWI Zelinsky-Kummant Gas Mask
• Czech WWI Legion in France Volunteer's Uniform Coat
• Canadian WWI 14th Battalion (Royal Montreal Regt.) Musician's Group with Clarinet
• AAF 9th Air Force 411th Fighter Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket
• AAF 10th Air Force 81st Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket with Leather US Flag & 'Blood Chit'
• AEF 336th Tank Battalion FG-17 Light Tank Motif Trench Art Desk Lamp
• WWI Aviator's Leather Flying Coat
• British WWI Wounded Royal Flying Corps Soldier's Convalescent Craft Therapy Project Belt
• AEF 35th Division Comprehensive Patch Blanket: 32 Insignias!
• 5th Air Force NCO's A-2 Flight Jacket: a Poughkeepsie Leather A-2 for a Poughkeepsie Airman!
• Civil War Federal Private Purchase Forage Cap
• Civil War Federal Private Purchase Chasseur Pattern Forage Cap
• Japanese WWII Test Type 1 Knife aka 'Paratrooper Bayonet': (LB#234) Toyada
• Japanese Type 14 Nambu Pistol and Holster Automatic Loom Works
• Japanese WWII IJN Submarine Klaxon
• British WWI Issue B5 Trench Boots
• AAF 9th Air Force 434th Bomb Squadron A-2 Flight Jacket with Arabic / English Name Tag
• French WWI Early War Issue Overcoat Model 1877: 1913 Date
• French WWI Horizon Blue Infantry Overcoat Model 1915
• Artillery Luger / MP-18 9mm Snail Drum Magazine
• AEF Handley Page Bomber Pilot's English Tailored Coat: 2nd Lt. Pierce N. Hodgkins
• RCAF WWII 130 Squadron Pilot's Irvin Fleece Aircrew Jacket, Boots, etc. Lost March 13, 1944
• WWII AAF 5th Air Force 25th Liaison Squadron 'Guinea Short Lines' Painted Flight Suit
• WWII AAF C-47 D-Day Pilot Massive Archive: 437th Troop Carrier Group
• RCAF WWII Airman's North Africa & Mediterranean Theater Photo Album Archive

We look forward to hearing from you on Thursday!

Best regards,

Jeff
www.advanceguardmilitaria.com