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World war i us 33rd infantry division painted helmet
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Question Displaying ID Tags
I have a large collection of ID tags I started in the early 90’s. Do any of you display them? If so, how?
Some of my most treasured items
Gday Gent’s
Insignificant items to some,treasures to me.
The small stones are from ANZAC Cove in the Dardanelles,They came off the beach where Australia’s young men went ashore during our first major conflict (obviously not the actual pebbles).Until then Australia’s manhood was relatively untested in battle.
The rifle projectile and piece of shrapnel come from the Somme battlefield.
Australia’s contribution and sacfifice in the battles of the Western Front 1916-18 is now legend.
A nation was forged together (we were a nation but 13 years old in 1914)and earnt respect from the power’s of the old world due to these actions.We were no more just a colony of Great Britian but a nation in our own right.
Treasures to me.
Insignificant items to some,treasures to me.
The small stones are from ANZAC Cove in the Dardanelles,They came off the beach where Australia’s young men went ashore during our first major conflict (obviously not the actual pebbles).Until then Australia’s manhood was relatively untested in battle.
The rifle projectile and piece of shrapnel come from the Somme battlefield.
Australia’s contribution and sacfifice in the battles of the Western Front 1916-18 is now legend.
A nation was forged together (we were a nation but 13 years old in 1914)and earnt respect from the power’s of the old world due to these actions.We were no more just a colony of Great Britian but a nation in our own right.
Treasures to me.
Thanks for looking and have a great day.
TR Relic Dug Artifacts Question
Just an odd observation I’ve been wondering about of late. So many excavated German badges,equipment, etc. that I’ve run across are all showing the same unusual thing-the Swastika has been removed. Most of the diggers that I’ve asked this all claim total ignorance and pretend that "it must have rotted off" or "I found it that way", when sadly, it’s glaringly obvious that it has just recently been snapped off with still bright and clean edges. Is there some strange "tradition" or something that makes some diggers Still de-Nazify artifacts even Today-70 years or more later, when it’s a well known fact that it certainly lowers the relic’s value and desirability, to do such a thing to something you’ve recovered? Personally, I would not want such an object in my collection-but that’s just me.
If pressed for an explanation, some of them will eventually trot out the old "The Germans did it themselves when they disposed of it before they gave themselves up and were captured.", which, is, of course, nonsense. Somehow, I doubt very much if some German machine-gunner was sitting around in a dug-out thinking of surrendering to the dreaded Red Army across the way and was worried too overly much about a miniscule swastika on some obscure piece of equipment or some such enough to deface it before he tossed it into the rubble or a fire somewhere. I can fully understand a Russian soldier needing a belt and grabbing one off of a German prisoner or corpse and chipping off the swastika so that he could wear it without his Sargent screaming at him when he saw it, but 70 years later, digging a German Infantry Assault badge from out of a 5 foot deep mud hole and cleaning it up to sell for a few bucks, I can’t quite see why someone at this age and era would deliberately take a pair of pliers to the Swastika and snap it off so he can sell it for less money. Of course, then again, I’ve been known to be baffled by less mundane things as well….
If pressed for an explanation, some of them will eventually trot out the old "The Germans did it themselves when they disposed of it before they gave themselves up and were captured.", which, is, of course, nonsense. Somehow, I doubt very much if some German machine-gunner was sitting around in a dug-out thinking of surrendering to the dreaded Red Army across the way and was worried too overly much about a miniscule swastika on some obscure piece of equipment or some such enough to deface it before he tossed it into the rubble or a fire somewhere. I can fully understand a Russian soldier needing a belt and grabbing one off of a German prisoner or corpse and chipping off the swastika so that he could wear it without his Sargent screaming at him when he saw it, but 70 years later, digging a German Infantry Assault badge from out of a 5 foot deep mud hole and cleaning it up to sell for a few bucks, I can’t quite see why someone at this age and era would deliberately take a pair of pliers to the Swastika and snap it off so he can sell it for less money. Of course, then again, I’ve been known to be baffled by less mundane things as well….
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Skull by Zimmermann
Hello,
may I ask you for your opinion on this item? I think it´s a genuine one, but confirmation from you would be great.
may I ask you for your opinion on this item? I think it´s a genuine one, but confirmation from you would be great.
Thank you!
Ziggy
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