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A little more research in jeff noll`s book on markings, a few other books and google (which linked me back here to an early thread) L.G. seems to stand for land gendarmerie or rural (civil) police. Seems the wappen may well be original to this shell after all. Apparently they were issued garde...

I was watching this item as a possible restoration project, but Ive just been looking closely at the pics and there are more than a few things that seem wrong. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150733571644?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 At first I thought it was an easy...

The distance learning may be a problem, although I would consider `upping sticks` and moving for the duration of the course. I`m just off to look at the dog post..so much of the forum I still need to get through. All the best Andy

Here are a few pics of chin strap ends and buckles. All recovered from dugouts over the years using a garden sieve. You can see there are many variations of the 1891/5 pattern attachments and buckles. Some are cleaned and some are as found. Some are really crude in manufacture and some are very...

Thanks Patrick I will give photobucket a look over. I think imageshack would lose the adds if I actually upgraded to a premium account, is photobucket the same? When you say you studied with Tony Pollard, are you refering to the course he heads in the centre for battlefield archaeology, or on a...

As promised here are some pics of parts of my collection. I think from the many replies to my introductory post that you all think I collect only battlefield relics. This isnt actually true, they are only a part of my collection, but it is a good place to start. And on pickelhaubes.com where...

Thanks for the welcome..A lot more than I expected!! I will get some pics together over the weekend if I can. Sadly many of my pics of the battlefields are locked on the hard drive of my old pc, I must get around to getting them off. I have more on old floppy discs. For some reason pc...

Hi all from (not so sunny) surrey in the uk Actually Ive been a frequent guest to this site for many months and always intended joining, so Ive finally taken the plunge and hope I can bring something to the forum. Ive been passionate about the great war for over 28 years, though I actually...