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As you all know, sometimes stories have a way of building over time. I had always thought it unlikely that he had taken the helmet off a soldier in the trenches. My grandfather did have a habit of "collecting" things. He was a storyteller of sorts, but the Pickelhaube doesn't diminish in...

I am not a collector, but I have an issue which I need advice on. Roughly 28 years ago after my grandfather's death, my aunt had a garage sale. I was 16 and at school. My aunt sold both my grandfather's Purple Heart and a Pickelhaube that the 19 year old US Marine had taken off a German...