My 4th Belgian lancer and a early custom service shako

[stuka f]

Had some pic up's to do yesterday going from Namur in Belgium to Lille in the north of France.
In stead of going from one point to the other at all speed, we decided to go slow and choose the rural small roads.
It was a great experience.
One of the places we came by was Conde sur Escaut a very nice old historical town that I would recomend to visit.




Lille is quiet nice as well, but I choose the suburbs of the town ( for parking facilities!)to meet the sellers, so no pic's from that place.......
But here is the beast!
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And here is the whole lot that I brought back from our trip;

 

[Khukri]

Kris,
Great hunt !
Love the Tschapka and the Dolman.
btw...The Tschapka would make a great avatar... 8)
Francis

 

[stuka f]

Thanks Francis, but someone all ready did! .... :wink:
I'll stick to my infantry line regiment helmet. Still high on my list that one, and the way things are going for me, I am hopping to get one tomorrow or maybe the day after....... [-o<
cheers

|<ris

 

[poniatowski]

Very nice! What a great trip and some wonderful finds.

Ron

 

[b.loree]

Very nice, congratulations !

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

Great finds, way to go

James

 

[edwin]

Nice stuff, congrats!

Regards,

Edwin

 

[Leone]

Nice place. Similar to fortress in our town.
Probably our town is younger, but very impressive too.

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[stuka f]

Thanks all!
Love to visit nothern country's, but my wife always wants to go south!......

 

[Spiker]

:thumb up: Great finds Kris,congratulations!

 

[ww1czechlegion]

Great Finds & a great trip! :thumb up: Congratulations!

It's very nice to see these items, thanks for showing them! =D>

Best Regards,

Alan

 

[stuka f]

Pleasure is mine!
Thanks for your appreciation.
|<ris

 

[RON]

Always cool to go on a nice hunting expedition and come back with great trophies. Congrats! :thumb up:

 

[stuka f]

Always cool to go on a nice hunting expedition and come back with great trophies. Congrats! :thumb up:

Thanks Ron!
The hunting was prepared on the laptop! All items were all ready ordered before we left.
It changes a lot from the antique shop hunting in the old days, but this is as close as I can get to that old hunting expedition, and it works for me!

BTW, I have got my collectors sigma in rough draft, just need to upgrade my photoshop skills to finish it and make it transparent...

 

[RON]

Very modern design... 8)
You could always paste it into PowerPoint and apply a tool called "set transparent color"

 

[stuka f]

I was trying to give it the 1930' art deco look........
Didn't get transparant, just this;

 

[Westfront]

Nice finds :thumb up: .

 

[stuka f]

Thank you!
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[stuka f]

Found some intresting stuff to ad to my Belgian lancer chapter.
A military booklet to a lancer ,saddly not the 4th regiment...
Here is it among other items from the same man.

 

[chinstrap]

That’s a very nice group. Congratulations. What are the medals?

Patrick