World War 2 WWII original photograph.
As far as I can tell and with a little help from a fellow ebayer, this appears to be a M3A1 Half Track and a Sherman Tank.
I know my listing and terms below might be a little lengthy, but please read them carefully and in their entirety.
Today, I will begin to list what will be approximately 75 to 100 World War 2 WW2 photographs that I purchased at a recent estate auction.
AS FAR AS PRICE, I'M GOING TO LIST EACH PHOTOGRAPH, AT WHAT I THINK, MIGHT BE FAIR MARKET VALUE, BASED ON WHAT SIMILAR PHOTOS HAVE SOLD FOR ON EBAY IN THE LAST 90 DAYS. I'M SURE SOME ARE $20 PHOTOGRAPHS OR LESS, WHILE OTHERS MIGHT BE $500 PHOTOGRAPHS OR MORE. AT THIS TIME, I WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING OFFERS, MAKING PACKAGE DEALS, MAKING CHEAP COPIES FOR $10 ETC. ETC. I PAID A VERY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THEM AT A LOCAL AUCTION. ONCE I LIST THEM, WHATEVER DOESN'T SELL IN APPROXIMATELY 30-60 DAYS, WILL HAVE THE PRICE LOWERED BY 10% PER MONTH, UNTIL THE PHOTO DOES SELL. IF YOU SEE THE VALUE NOW, AT THE CURRENT PRICE, I SUGGEST YOU BUY IT NOW, BEFORE IT'S GONE.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE IN GENERALLY GOOD OVERALL CONDITION, BUT THEY SHOW A LITTLE WEAR AND THEY HAVE A LITTLE CURVE TO THEM, AS OLD PHOTO PAPER TYPICALLY WILL HAVE. IF THERE IS ANY NOTEWORTHY SIGNIFICANT WEAR, I WILL POINT THAT OUT IN THE EARLY PART OF THE DESCRIPTION.
REGARDING SHIPPING: MY INITIAL INTENTION IS TO PUT EACH PHOTOGRAPH IN A ACID FREE PROTECTIVE SLEEVE. I THEN TAKE THAT SLEEVE AND SANDWICH IT BETWEEN TWO CUSTOM CUT PIECES OF STURDY CARDBOARD, THAT ARE MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR SHIPPING PHOTOGRAPHS. I THEN TAKE THAT CARDBOARD SANDWICH AND PUT IT BETWEEN TWO MORE PIECES OF THAT SAME STURDY CARDBOARD. IN MY 25 YEARS OF SELLING ON EBAY, I'VE SOLD THOUSANDS OF PHOTOGRAPHS, CAR BROCHURES, FLYERS AND JUST GENERAL PAPER COLLECTIBLES, OR WHAT SOME PEOPLE CALL EPHEMERA AND NOT ONE HAS EVER BEEN BENT OR DAMAGED. HOWEVER, YOU WILL NEED TO USE COMMON SENSE CAUTION AND CARE, WHEN OPENING YOUR PACKAGE. YOU WILL HAVE TO CUT THE TAPE AT THE EDGE, SO DON'T GO AT IT WITH A BUTCHER KNIFE. A RAZOR BLADE IS IDEAL.
IF THE PURCHASE IS ON THE MORE SIGNIFICANT SIDE, I WILL MODIFY MY SHIPPING TECHNIQUE, TO PROBABLY PUTING THAT INITIAL CARDBOARD SANDWICH INSIDE OF A BOX, UTILIZING BUBBLE WRAP ETC. ETC. ON ANY OF MY PACKAGES, WHEN YOU SEE BLUE TAPE, THAT'S PAINTERS TAPE AND WILL PEEL OFF EASILY WITH YOUR FINGERS. YOU DO NOT NEED TO CUT THAT BLUE TAPE AND POSSIBLY DAMAGE THE PHOTO.
REGARDING RETURNS: I DO NOT ACCEPT RETURN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! UNFORTUNATELY, SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I SOLD A LARGE NUMBER OF NASA RELATED PHOTOS TO A GUY, FOR WHAT WAS A VERY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY. HE THEN PROCEEDED TO TAKE THOSE ORIGINAL PHOTOS TO A COPY SHOP, MAKE HIGHER END COPIES OF THEM AND HAD INTENDED TO USE THEM, OR AT LEAST, HAVE THEM AT HIS DISPOSAL, FOR A BOOK THAT HE WAS ALLEGEDLY WRITING. HE THEN OF COURSE, WANTED TO RETURN ALL OF MY ORIGINAL PHOTOS FOR A FULL REFUND. I HAD ANOTHER GUY BUY SOME MILITARY PHOTOS FROM ME, MAKE COPIES OF THEM AND THEM SELL THE COPIES ON EBAY FOR $5 EACH. HE ALSO WANTED TO RETURN MY ORIGINALS FOR A FULL REFUND. FOLKS, IN GENERAL, I'M ASKING YOU NOT TO BE A**HOLE
I am going to start all of the individual photograph sales at the same time, so you know that whatever I currently have is listed, available and shown. I think all but 3 or 4 have a little Army Signal Corps logo in the lower corner and some have a photo id # as well. When I purchased them, they had been stored in two old photo paper boxes. One Kodak box and one Ansco box. They are all on photo paper and what I guess are considerd "original photographs". Original in the sense that they are not paper copies of the real photograph. Of course, I have no idea how many copies were printed and if they were ever released to the public. I know that there are some museums that have large collections of signal corps photographs. Each photo shown, will be shown with one or two standard 12 inch rulers in the pictures. Those rulers are there just to give you a general idea of the size, not an exact measurement, because while they are all a general basic size, they do vary a little bit from photo to photo.
A few of the photos had an explanation on the rear of the photo, of what exactly the picture depicted, but most did not. I will do a very quick AI search to see if AI can identify any of the key players or regions in the photographs. I will tell you up front, that I am not a military historian, so YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURES CAREFULLY AND BE YOUR OWN JUDGE.
Some of the photographs are relatively uneventful, such as guys eating etc, while others are very graphic and might be what some consider gruesome. SO, VIEW THESE AS YOUR OWN DISCRETION.