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- Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:59 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: My (all original) German Collection
- Replies: 12
- Views: 168
Re: My (all original) German Collection
I predict that in a couple of decades, you will be buying a couple of shipping containers, there is no cure, just treatment for this disorder. The current health care regulations require insurance to cover drug addicts, I think they should also pay for collectors to treat their ailment.
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 8:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Good Soldier Svejk
- Replies: 4
- Views: 148
Re: The Good Soldier Svejk
My introduction to Good Soldier Svejk actually came from the book Good Camarad Schweik, by Helmut Putz. I found the book when I was still in high school and it was so interesting that I searched for the prequel by Jaroslav Hašek. Good Soldier Svejk is even better, but Putz did do a very good job of ...
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Good Soldier Svejk
- Replies: 4
- Views: 148
Re: The Good Soldier Svejk
That would be the Gendarm he met while he was making his way to the front after getting left behind by his regiment.
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:35 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
Re: A new home for my collection
Think about a good HEPA air purifier to remove some of the dust. I'm sure you could tuck it away somewhere and that will do a great job of controlling the dust. Even though dust is a big problem in our area, I have not had any problems with dust in the containers. The carpet catches any dirt that c...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:24 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
Re: A new home for my collection
Schiavona13 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 2:12 pmI have astro turf on the landing and in the entrance, That helps remove most of the dirt. The carpet is vacuumed fairly regular, and while dust is a big problem in this area, I have manage to keep it to a minimum in the containers.
- Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:09 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
Re: A new home for my collection
Do you have climat control and heating in there ? Humidity is not a big problem here under normal conditions as we seldom get above 50%, but I do have a dehumidifier as well as limited heating in the winter and AC in the summer. During the coldest months, I will have to allow the temperatures to ge...
- Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:46 am
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
Re: A new home for my collection
Thanks all, this has been a project that I had wanted to do for some time, making the collection available to the public while keeping it at home where I can enjoy it too. I have had it displayed at other museums in the past, about half the collection spent 6 months in the Fort Douglas Military Muse...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:39 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
Re: A new home for my collection
We have been getting the bunker ready for an open house sometime in the month of November, we will host the member's meeting of the Minidoka County Historical Society and the general public sometime after Veteran's Day. The time and date will be announced when we get things ironed out. DSCN0087.JPG ...
- Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:59 pm
- Forum: Latest Find
- Topic: M1915 Bavarian
- Replies: 18
- Views: 642
Re: M1915 Bavarian
Metric is a better system, but Centigrade is not really a very good measurement of temperature. It is based on water's state while Fahrenheit is based on the human condition.
- Wed Aug 21, 2019 6:19 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: Minor Disaster!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 630
Re: Minor Disaster!
Glad the remodel is a success and that the preventative measures are working
- Wed Aug 21, 2019 2:21 pm
- Forum: Weapons and Ordnance
- Topic: 2018 de-activation laws
- Replies: 9
- Views: 749
Re: 2018 de-activation laws
The half inch is actually the addition of two cuts that remove a quarter inch of material. Our European friends are not talking about full auto weapons, I think they are talking about the run of the mill rifle, pistol and revolvers we almost take for granted.
- Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:29 am
- Forum: Latest Find
- Topic: Finally found a metal haube
- Replies: 11
- Views: 688
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:42 am
- Forum: Latest Find
- Topic: Finally found a metal haube
- Replies: 11
- Views: 688
Re: Finally found a metal haube
You should have had this shipped through your US exporter!
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:07 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: Minor Disaster!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 630
Re: Minor Disaster!
There are only two kinds of basements, those that have had water in them and those that will have water in them, and the first group is also in the second group. You are lucky, I have friends who were away from home for a week and had a waterline in the second floor break putting 4 feet of water in...
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:55 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: Minor Disaster!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 630
Re: Minor Disaster!
There are only two kinds of basements, those that have had water in them and those that will have water in them, and the first group is also in the second group. You are lucky, I have friends who were away from home for a week and had a waterline in the second floor break putting 4 feet of water in ...
- Sun Aug 11, 2019 12:54 am
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: Loss of a Forum member, my brother
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1305
Re: Loss of a Forum member, my brother
I am not sure how many of you noticed that Paul's occupation in his profile was "Slayer of dragons" That was not an idle boast. One of Paul's jobs was working for ICE, I remember a few years ago getting a letter from him, he was very excited because they had just had an ICE bust in Minnesota that he...
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 6:26 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
Re: A new home for my collection
Hi, Gus-- I was already thinking how this could be easily loaded on a truck. The best part is if you move you have containers ready for the collection. This looks really good. What is the source of lighting? LED? Yes Peter, the lighting is LED or lead lights as my father used to say. And the portab...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:03 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
Re: A new home for my collection
:thumbright: :thumbright: :thumbright: Well that got to be the most ingenious solution for a large collection I have ever seen. Brilliant. I took the hard route and built a new house of which my Bunker was an integral part of the design. Your initiative solution might have worked for me. Well done....
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 9:50 am
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 10:45 pm
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: A new home for my collection
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1336
A new home for my collection
I have been working on a project in the back yard for the past month. I wanted a better way to store and display my collection, it is based on two 40 shipping containers bolted together with two passages cut between them. The are insulated and walled in and fire or flood are a veru small worry. The ...
- Tue Jul 02, 2019 8:22 am
- Forum: Latest Find
- Topic: Winter Pickelhaube
- Replies: 16
- Views: 815
Re: Winter Pickelhaube
That sure looks good to me!
- Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:30 pm
- Forum: Weapons and Ordnance
- Topic: MG08
- Replies: 82
- Views: 19920
Re: MG08
It has cut down on junk mail and bills.
- Tue May 28, 2019 8:29 pm
- Forum: Weapons and Ordnance
- Topic: MG08
- Replies: 82
- Views: 19920
Re: MG08
I found that an 08 on a sled makes a good mail box stand.
- Fri May 17, 2019 9:34 am
- Forum: Latest Find
- Topic: Oil on wood
- Replies: 6
- Views: 466
Re: Oil on wood
It is a lot nicer than the portrait of Bismark that Paul has!
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:50 pm
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: Coolest Avatar Contest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 371
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:49 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Pickelhaubes.Com
- Topic: Welcome cliffn !
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2523
- Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:47 pm
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: New mail box stand.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 391
Re: New mail box stand.
Here is the Saturday mail man, since we put this up we have not received any bills or junk mail.
The bullet holes in the mail box have been there for about 40 years.
The bullet holes in the mail box have been there for about 40 years.
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 3:28 pm
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: New mail box stand.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 391
New mail box stand.
I put up a new mail box stand from some of the bits I got on the last trip back east.
- Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:02 am
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: My man cave
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1545
Re: My man cave
The one side see through also has the benefit of keeping outsiders from seeing in. I have to admit that the reason for walling over the window in one room was for the display space as it is a north wall and gets little sunlight through it. If you need more display space, you can send what does not f...
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:21 am
- Forum: Member's Collections
- Topic: My man cave
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1545
Re: My man cave
A Great collection and great displays, the one thing I see that worries me is the amount of sunlight that is allowed into the collections room. I hope you have UV protection on the glass. There are a number of things that threaten our collection, we all understand water, fire, theft and vermin, but ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 2:00 pm
- Forum: Auction & Show News
- Topic: MAX Show 2020 Moving to York, Penn.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 432
Re: MAX Show 2020 Moving to York, Penn.
I was really hoping it would move to Denver or Fargo.
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 10:46 pm
- Forum: Wappen/Helmet Plates
- Topic: Part of My Wappen Collection
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4621
Re: Part of My Wappen Collection
His posts do not fit with the topics, I suspect he is a spammer.aicusv wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:11 pmRed and blue leather??????HenryTauct wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 6:11 amVery nice collection indeed Let’s see you in some of them. I love the red and cobalt blue leather.
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 6:37 pm
- Forum: WWI
- Topic: My WW1 camo helmet
- Replies: 15
- Views: 679
Re: My WW1 camo helmet
The reason the steel helmet is classified as a weapon is the same reason that there were WMDs found in Iraq before the First Gulf War. In the United States, a gas mask is classified as a defensive weapon, that makes it a weapon of mass destruction because it is used in chemical warfare. It is stupid...
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:09 am
- Forum: Auction & Show News
- Topic: Estate Auction
- Replies: 9
- Views: 688
Re: Estate Auction
#77 is WWI French engineer's
#78 is WWII French infantry
#81 are WWII British
#86 is US early WWII
#87 is German WWI steel helmet
#91 is Japanese WWII
#78 is WWII French infantry
#81 are WWII British
#86 is US early WWII
#87 is German WWI steel helmet
#91 is Japanese WWII
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:52 am
- Forum: Weapons and Ordnance
- Topic: 2018 de-activation laws
- Replies: 9
- Views: 749
Re: 2018 de-activation laws
This reinforces how lucky we are in the US, a few years ago I was asked by a teacher to bring a display to a school, I called the school principal to make sure it was OK. I told him I would be bringing a display that included rifles, bayonets, handguns, fighting knives and grenades. He said that it ...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:29 pm
- Forum: Auction & Show News
- Topic: SOS 2019
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2700
Re: SOS 2019
We managed to make it to SOS Where is everyone?
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:01 pm
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: North American weather
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1331
Re: North American weather
And now the newsys are fretting because there is the possibility that the magnetic poles could switch (the magnetic north pole is moving faster than normal) one report stated that there would be massive earthquakes when this happened, because the reporter believed that the earth itself would change ...
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:51 pm
- Forum: German Uniforms, Cloth Headgear & Accessories
- Topic: M1907 Feldmütze RIR 86*, latest find!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 731
Re: M1907 Feldmütze RIR 86*, latest find!
I agree with Argonne, that is definitely an 86 that would fit better from a Mutze that was also marked the the Fusilier Regiment 86.
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:46 pm
- Forum: Auction & Show News
- Topic: SOS 2019 Update
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1857
Re: SOS 2019 Update
Just a quick note to everyone who is going to the Show of Shows, there are some new rules on drive in unloading, They are going to be very forceful in enforcing some of the new rules. The biggest change is the ban on trading in Hall "B" while unloading, "parking lot deals will be cause for explosion...
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 3:31 pm
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: North American weather
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1331
Re: North American weather
I am pretty sure I saw him pan handling in Las Vegas a few years ago.
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:52 am
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: North American weather
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1331
Re: North American weather
It does, and I should not complain about they sensationalizing the weather, at least they are not paying sick people to murder a lot of children when the weather is bad.
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 3:39 pm
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: North American weather
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1331
Re: North American weather
Those of you in Europe need to be aware that the American news outlets are always reporting in a way to make the weather look much worse than it really is. Fake news has been around for a long time. -33F is about the same as -37C, it is cold, but not uncommon. Most of the news people have only been ...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:45 pm
- Forum: Latest Find
- Topic: A seldom one with red numbers helmet cover
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1988
Re: A seldom one with red numbers helmet cover
Superb :thumbright: Wasn't there a French collector who insisted that there was no zig-zag stitching prior to 1918? It was nonsense of course. This is marvellous. But now you have a dilemma. Überzug on and cover that superb Wappen? Or off so you can see the Überzug markings? That is and easy one to...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 3:29 am
- Forum: German Uniforms, Cloth Headgear & Accessories
- Topic: German WW1 Canteens
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2054
Re: German WW1 Canteens
That would be a later harness, and one would expect a steel bottle, but there is no set rule as salvaged early waterbottles might be reissued with new covers and straps.
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:28 pm
- Forum: German Uniforms, Cloth Headgear & Accessories
- Topic: German WW1 Canteens
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2054
Re: German WW1 Canteens
The correct cup would match the material of the water bottle. If it is aluminum, it was likely issued during the first year of war and would usually have an aluminum cup. A steel water bottle would have been issued late 1915 or later and would normally have a steel cup. Bear in mind that the soldier...
- Sun Dec 30, 2018 1:59 pm
- Forum: WWI
- Topic: re stick grenades
- Replies: 3
- Views: 324
Re: re stick grenades
I think that the price is a bit high, if it was in $US it would be reasonable.
- Wed Dec 26, 2018 11:17 am
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: My Christmas gift from my brother
- Replies: 5
- Views: 395
Re: My Christmas gift from my brother
It suits you.
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A new film about WW1 by Peter Jackson
- Replies: 7
- Views: 767
Re: A new film about WW1 by Peter Jackson
I just got back from watching "They Shall Not Grow Old" in the theater. It wa well worth the 120 mile dirve and the cost of admission. If you have not seen it in the US, it plays again on the 27th of this month. You can use this link to find a location near you. https://www.fathomevents.com/events/t...
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: Gus and Maggie visit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1032
Re: Gus and Maggie visit
Closer to somewhere around 80 now!
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:45 pm
- Forum: Otto's social forum
- Topic: Gus and Maggie visit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1032
Re: Gus and Maggie visit
The best thing about visiting the LeB household is the rest of the family, although Kate tried to poke my eye out for fun and Eric boobytrapped my boots while I was wearing my favorite slippers. James had convince Lori that he only had about 80 helmets, I made the mistake of mentioning that there we...