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Being a pickel collector for 35 years, that is the most heard reaction, but since I constructed a showcase in our living room reactions tend to be somewhat nicer, but then again most people don’t even see it when they come to our house the first time

Sorry to hear, wish you all

This book, by Brian Calkins published in 1990 was one of my first reference books, bought more than 30 years a ago when I was stil a student, and started collecting. Having evolved in collecting over the last 35 years, this book is now to limited in its information, it lacks details, but I...

by the way, it is not soldered to the Kurrass, I think the cross is pinned through the kurrass, see these photo's of the inside (I can't check it, as it is on an model-torso), but looking closely at it from the outside it is not soldered

I have one on a kurras

Curious, both on the mysterious item and the bidding process, keep us posted

the story of put together opossum officer busbies is also familiar to me... heared that story before. There is al lot of fake stuff out there in militaria in general, but in officer busbies it seems even worse, Typical sealskin manschaften busbies seem quite recognizable as original or fake...

Yesterday there was an officer tschapka on the forum for review, the rabatten were clearly a no go, (crude made repro) and remarks on repro cchinscales were also clear, but the rest… I did not like it but difficult to say why, It is like beauty: difficult to define, but you immediately...

I think this helmet is original, like it, in my opinion no red flags, nice patina, and convincing markers

The boy in blue coat is my son, who is very military history interested like his dad

Today, it’s 80 years liberation commemoration of the town I live in the Netherlands, this private property tank is here too, so Yes in Holland you can own a tank

this is the story of the pensioner in Germany

Too bad that they were destroyed in a fire, a guy in Germany became frontpage news some years ago because he had an 88 mm FLAK and a Panthertank in his garage, I will look for the reference to share it

Wow, that is a cool find!, using metal detector?

I only bought a modest french officer kepi of the 93 regiment because that regiment fought near maissin, the town in the Belgian Ardennes where there is a beautiful cemetery of german and french soldiers fallen during the battle of the frontier in august 1914 (Nearby our holliday house)...

What a beautiful helmet!!!

What a beautiful uniform!!! Congratulations Sander!

very nice indeed

I’m in the Ardennes now, where I have a collection of figures of ww1 by Hachette, about 70 miniatures each was accompanied by a booklet with information on weapons and battles and uniforms , although not as detailed as those pictured above they are very nice and from all belingurent countries...