25 Bucks

Not much is known about how this 8th ITR "currency" was used.  Please contact us if you have additional information.  Click on the image for a full size version

Submitted by Roger deWardt Lane

Click on the image for a small collection of Camp Croft matchbooks

Just when you thought you had seen it all ... click on the image for a full size version.  The right leg (looking at the image) is frayed.

Click on the image to see the inside of this very nice item.

One of our favorites.  Unfortunately the white paint is pretty delicate and has started chipping off.

A collection of cartoons from "Crofters" Peter Paul Czerepak and Dick Bothwell, published in 1942.  An earlier issue was called "Camp Croft Cartoons"

One of several variations according to images we have seen.  This one sold at auction in 2006 for $300 to a buyer in Japan!

From the 28th Infantry Training Battalion.  We have seen others from the 30th and 31st Battalions so others no doubt exist as well.

Smoking Empherma

A very heavy item, this iron horse (with a copper saddle that reads "Camp Croft")acts as a pipe holder.

Ticket from Camp Croft to Spartanburg

A souvenir photo booklet which can be viewed online by clicking here

From the 1942 game between Camp Croft and Fort Knox. 

Commemorating the opening of the Croft Post Office on February 27, 1941

Click on the image for a larger version

Click on the image for a larger version

We have seen several of these for other WWII camps and forts.

Several of these medallions have shown up but none have been on a chain, ribbon, or other method of wearing as jewelry, so we can only speculate to its intended use as a charm.  Click on the image to see the reverse side.

We have seen dozens of these in various forms (sister, mother, daughter, wife, sweetheart, etc.) and a few with original mailers. They are far from rare but that makes them a nice, inexpensive piece to collect.

Apparently only used the first couple of years the camp was open, these are seen on the private vehicles of officers assigned to the camp.  The background is dark blue (not black as it may appear in the image).