Wartime Flashlights

WW2 german flaslight, made around 1940. It's not in too good shape, but it's have nice details. This type had three color filter. The green-red useable with the rotatable rim, and the blue switchable with the little arm on the side. Thats an early type with the painted arrows on the top, and the red switch. Later, when was simplified the manufacturing, stopped the color painting, and used an another switch. The filters is below the reflector. When you rotate the rim a small spike pull up one of these filters. Left direction is the red, right is the green. Sometimes get stuck the filters, due to the dust and dirt.  Red, cylinder shaped three-position switch. Later they stopped the red painting, and much later used an another flat shaped switch. That was a good development, the flat shaped more ergonomic, more usable then this cylinder. Nice, hand painted arrows. Somebody in the factory painting these little arrows all day.. The arm pull up, pull down this brass pin, which moves ...

Made around 1940, in Germany. It's a very simple flashlight, without any fancy functions. That haven't got lens, or morse button, only an automatic switch, which is turn on when you turn up the lid. The original oval, white bottomed bulb. This type lid switch used often on the ww1 flashlights, but this Pertrix don't used in the great war. Never used any Pertrix flashlights in the first world war, because the Pertrix factory was founded near end of the war, in 1917. If you don't open the lid compleatly, with this gap light will be able to reading a map, write a note, or do something else hidden in the dark... Under the top cover. When you close down, the back part of the lid lifting and interrupts the circuit, the light is turn off. Wartime Flashlights All rights reserved © 2020