Question pictures of badges and medals
Here are some badges and a green patch, and a medal of some sort. Anyone know what they are for?
Archive for February, 2010
The ethics of digging
Seeing the variety of threads on battlefield digs makes me wonder about the ethics of such projects. While it is fascinating to see what is recovered, I wonder what history might be lost from groups of relics being broken up for individual collections and removed from their original context. I can certainly appreciate the urge to dig (make money, acquire that special missing piece in one's collection) but I wonder if digging might be robbing future historians of untouched sites that might offer perspective on the history of the Second World War. In the U.S. Midwest, digging in Indian mounds was a popular weekend outing at the turn of the century. Sadly, when there was a better understanding of the importance of the mounds and the items buried there, they were long gone.
I'd be curious to get opinions from the community on this topic. I've been working on my Master's to become an archivist and I've been thinking about the code of ethics for that field and for ethical issues facing historians as well.
I'd be curious to get opinions from the community on this topic. I've been working on my Master's to become an archivist and I've been thinking about the code of ethics for that field and for ethical issues facing historians as well.
Nazi stamp!
My uncle bowden was a sgt in the army intelligence in Gemany during the war. He brought back a few items that I thought were interesting. The item in question is a stars and stripes newspaper with a Nazi stamp on it. I want to know if anyone knows what the stamp represents. I have an entire collection of papers from the war including a cease fire that came across the wire. I am more interested in finding out about this stamp.
My WWI Colt 45
This is one of my 45’s. Its had a hard life. It was made in 1918 so there is a good chance it was used in WWI. It came with the holster ,web belt,and mag holder. The holster is a 1917 Boyt . From the looks of the Colt it has sat in that holster for way to long. :weep: But she is still a great shooter cool militaria. Gary
Need help! Eickhorn SA Dagger info on crossguard
I have an early eickhorn sa dagger I received from my dad. It has a number 7 under the cross guard and I do not know what the number is for. Here is the picture, I would like to know what the variations of the handle are, mine has a striped dark texture wood.
Any value to this one?
Any value to this one?
the cost of the hobby
I would like to start a thread on the cost of collecting in general. i have pondered the cost of collectables all of my life well at least since i started collecting. and thanks to having a young familly i am no stranger to the reality of fiscal relitivity and supply and damand.
and hear is the but. But it does seem that the cost of collecting is fast out striping the anual increase in my anual earnings.
i should explain i live in the uk and at the moment i collect deac pistols and a few years ago a 38 enfield would have cost around £100 to £120 now £250 plus and it's new spec.
you could get a no4 enfield for £80 to £100 now £200 plus.
i don't mind peaple making a profit i have done it my self but what is going on? is it just supply and demand? are there more collectors out there now i hope so. are the dealers getting rich?:weep:
what about the young collectors how do they get started what can you collect these days that is interesting and pocket money?
you may collect something unusual like german factory id pins they are very rare and hard to come by. they probebly sell for not a lot of cash cos they are so hard to find there for hard to collect. but i would say these type of items are for the advanced collector that has developed there interest over time.
i would gues that the new collector may find something like guns, hats, swords, medals or badges as a good place to start but all the sexy stuff is expensive.what are they to do? look at the price of true antique guns they have become the pas time of the rich and strangley un regulated. if you want to collect 17 & 18 century wild foul pieces you are a jent of tast if you collect ww2 fighting knifes you dont tell a sole exept from another colletor and that is the only political point i will make.
just thinking out loud chaps over to you all.
Andy
and hear is the but. But it does seem that the cost of collecting is fast out striping the anual increase in my anual earnings.
i should explain i live in the uk and at the moment i collect deac pistols and a few years ago a 38 enfield would have cost around £100 to £120 now £250 plus and it's new spec.
you could get a no4 enfield for £80 to £100 now £200 plus.
i don't mind peaple making a profit i have done it my self but what is going on? is it just supply and demand? are there more collectors out there now i hope so. are the dealers getting rich?:weep:
what about the young collectors how do they get started what can you collect these days that is interesting and pocket money?
you may collect something unusual like german factory id pins they are very rare and hard to come by. they probebly sell for not a lot of cash cos they are so hard to find there for hard to collect. but i would say these type of items are for the advanced collector that has developed there interest over time.
i would gues that the new collector may find something like guns, hats, swords, medals or badges as a good place to start but all the sexy stuff is expensive.what are they to do? look at the price of true antique guns they have become the pas time of the rich and strangley un regulated. if you want to collect 17 & 18 century wild foul pieces you are a jent of tast if you collect ww2 fighting knifes you dont tell a sole exept from another colletor and that is the only political point i will make.
just thinking out loud chaps over to you all.
Andy
US 12th Air Corp
Here is a uniform from an old friend ( deceased now ) Nathan Cole who flew 54 missions in B25's and B26's from North Africa to Italy. Stayed drunk for 2 years after WWII then went to college on the GI bill and became a university art and art history instructor. He witnessed the Mount Vesuvius eruption and was evacuated from the airfield where his squadron was stationed. He said they left everything including the aircraft when evacuated by plane it was all covered with volcanic ash. He also said his squadron was part of the group that bombed Casino.
Included in the photo's are close up of his 4 pocket class A dress jacket, a photo of Nat and his fellow crewmen with info on the back ( Nat is lower left, front row.), some propaganda leaflets, some invasion money from North Africa ( something you rarely come across in the USA ) and a piece of flak that hit his aircraft.
During his time in the Army Airforce he flew as an gunner and radioman. I liked him a lot we were the only veterans in the Art department. We tended to be an island of conservatisim in an ocean of liberals.
Sorry about the sideways picture.
Steve
Included in the photo's are close up of his 4 pocket class A dress jacket, a photo of Nat and his fellow crewmen with info on the back ( Nat is lower left, front row.), some propaganda leaflets, some invasion money from North Africa ( something you rarely come across in the USA ) and a piece of flak that hit his aircraft.
During his time in the Army Airforce he flew as an gunner and radioman. I liked him a lot we were the only veterans in the Art department. We tended to be an island of conservatisim in an ocean of liberals.
Sorry about the sideways picture.
Steve
Date of rank/Date of Service
Tovarischi;
When calculating DOR, and, or DOS for Red Army veterans of the GPW era, was time in the Tsarist Army during the first war, prior to the existence of the Soviet Union, considered, or even recognized?
Spaceba
Boridin
When calculating DOR, and, or DOS for Red Army veterans of the GPW era, was time in the Tsarist Army during the first war, prior to the existence of the Soviet Union, considered, or even recognized?
Spaceba
Boridin
a couple of pilotkas
My best thinking tells me these pilotkas are reproductions, the first a rare VVS Red Air Force, the other an Infantry pilotka, both allegedly of World War II vintage. I don't like either of them for various reasons such as the later vintage star on the Infantry example, and the stamps, but I am posting these to hear your best thinking
East german?
is it an East German paratrooper 
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