Hi,

This would be a certificate awarding the sports badge?
Can one make out his full name?

Thanks.

Click to enlarge the picture

 

 

Just got these canteens together with some more nice militaria. I collect german militaria, which these are not. I think the second canteen is British WW2. What about the other one anyone??

Thanks!

Click to enlarge the picture

   

   

   

All,

Great forum.

I go to Russia occasionally and am curious where would be the best place to find relics. My father in law was in Volgograd last year and wanted to bring something back for me. So he picked up a large (70mm+) artillery shell with projectile (had been deactivated) and was going to send it to me but the post office people kicked him out, lol…

So… I will just assume that the typical Russian "flea market" or street market might be a decent place to find relics but where to look?

I assume Moscow would be bad, too much construction over the years and if pieces were found they’d be more expensive there.

So that leaves Volgograd and St. Petersburg as possibilties… as far as the big cities.

I’ve been to Russian cities in the <10,000 population range and think it may be difficult to look around those cities.

Ukraine is less covenient for me.

Maybe Smolensk? Bryansk? Oryol? Voronezh?

Where do you look? Many fakers and con-men selling relics?

TIA!

Hi guys.

I will follow Nick’s example and post my EK collection, as it is at the moment.
I had all my crosses home for the weekend.
New things are the cased crosses.

Regards

Click to enlarge the picture

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left wing had separated from body but now is repaired,displays nicely from the front,,has 3 of 4 retaining pins,,,if you need it for your crash helmet,here it is!,,$185,00,,,,free postage to us & overseas addresses,,,however,overseas buyers must purchase a registered mail label @$12.80 showing successful delivery,,,,thanks for looking

Click to enlarge the picture

 

 

can any one i d this

Attached Images

   

Hello All

I was just thinking a forum list on this subject could be interesting, besides the actual battleplaces themselves, a list of town names with a battlefield theme. Ill start with a few examples ive come accross..

Spion Kop, small village in Nottinghamshire

Dunkirk, an area of Nottingham

Waterlooville, Hampshire.

There must be others….please post em …

Reg

Not knowing anything about these items, it looks to me as if someone added the knife blade at some point. The belt doesn’t fit under the post sleeve, I believe it’s called, with the blade in place.

Is this real or fake? I read somewhere that factory rejects and surplus items were assembled into unique items, such as letter openers by using German regulation belt buckle with affixed stiletto blade.

Is this true?

Click to enlarge the picture

 

 

 

 

i need your Oppinion on this SS Ground Dug Eagel and how much i can pay for it, wath is a fair price for the eagel

Click to enlarge the picture

 

 

 

 

 

Hey guys,

Firstly I would just like to introduce myself to this area of the forum. I live in the Midlands (it appears there are a few of us) and have recently decided to get into this fascinating hobby.

If anyone would care to offer any advice on the best approach to securing adequate permission to dig a site I would be most grateful.

The reason I ask is that a few months ago myself and a friend visited a WW2 airfield that is now mostly farmland. We happened to meet the farmer whilst walking the perimeter who was extremely friendly and he allowed us to explore the site.

After some research and obtaining the plans for the airfield we decided to take another visit to explore further and to hopefully ask the same farmer about possibly digging. We decided to take a look at an area south of the main airfield site where accommodation was located where we came across a field which had a number of ruined wartime buildings in it.

Perhaps foolishly (and in some part due to the friendly meeting between the previous farmer) we hopped over the gate and started to look around. Unfortunately a different farmer (the opposite in fact) who must have been the landowner of this particular field saw us and was obviously very upset at the site of two blokes poking around his field.

I tried to explain the situation but he was having none of it and we got a right telling off!

Since then I have purchased a metal detector and am keen to get started but I obviously want to ensure that we do things properly and get permission and avoid angry farmers. How do you guys go about finding out who owns the land and asking to dig and what do you think is the best approach?

Can you just turn up and hope to bump into somebody, knock on doors or do you try and contact people before hand? Do you always even ask for permission or are there sometimes places that you can dig where permission isn’t required?

I would be really interested to know!

Thanks in advance

Ash