WW1 grouping discovery.

[rynegold]

I recently bought this grouping from the daughter of a WW1 First Lieutenant who served (as an officer) in the Fifth Army. Here is what I recieved from her...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1908982...85554079/show/

And a link to a thread I posted as to the regimental markings:

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/fo...owtopic=170325

It was taken from an officer during the Meuse-Argonne operation as there were many who surrendered to the 5th.

I've been told by a friend who owns quite a few lugers that there are some stamps he's never seen before; I'll try and get pix of them up here shortly. All #s match inside and out save the magazines of which neither match.

His daughter told me that he, her dad ( Lt. Ernest Hampy) told the story often of having taken the little Folbert pistol from a POW; he had it cupped in his hand, holding it with his thumb during a search. He is listed in the Div. history book you see in my pix.

Her dad was a first gen. American... his father became a citizen while a farmer in Missouri in 1841. Their name was originally spelled Haumpe.

regards, m