Each one of us began his adventure with collecting military stuff in a different way. In this thread I’d like to show how I began. We usually get a shiny badge from a relative, hear war memories of our grandfather or start thinking about collecting after visiting museum. But also visiting one’s attic may be quite astonishing and trigger influence on one life that that you would never suspect.
The home in which I live now once belonged to the Germans. I’ve heard many times about valuables hidden after WWII by the Germans and then often by chance found by the Poles resettled on the eastern area of former III Reich (according to the Potsdam Agreement). They usually found porcelain and many various valuables. One day it dawned at me why not to look what’s left in my attic. I called for my friend and started to explore the attic. There were no valuables but...
Here is what we managed to find in my attic:
- K98 bayonet,
- German army binoculars (but lost ‘em while playing, years ago
),
- Something what looks like an oxygen mask,
- Luftwaffe cup,
- Late-war, steel made canteen,
- Dienst-Brille container,
- WWI postcard,
- WWI tsar canteen or Weimar/early III Reich era paramilitary canteen (no markings),
- some sort of re-enforcement patch (marked epf 1942 WaA195),
- Imperial Germany buttons,
- Russian WWII gas mask filter type BN-L3 f(M38) used with Schlem Mask M1,
- RAD cup,
- Two canteen nuts – one from M31 canteen, the other one from Russian WWII canteen,
- Postcard depicting Warschau Opera (from the WWI),
- Three German bread coupons (on the other side are printed Polish docs from 1946 year).
- Russian WWII shovel.
I know that condition of most of this specimens is not excellent or even poor but I feel very close connection with them, they still remain treasures form me (maybe not in a meaning of its market value). These are one of my first specimens and I’m very positive I’ll never sell them.
I found some other stuff, maybe even more interesting but civil stuff is not a topic here...
Anyway, feel free to post Yours home - attics or cellars finds including stuff that was brought home by vets.
Best regards
The home in which I live now once belonged to the Germans. I’ve heard many times about valuables hidden after WWII by the Germans and then often by chance found by the Poles resettled on the eastern area of former III Reich (according to the Potsdam Agreement). They usually found porcelain and many various valuables. One day it dawned at me why not to look what’s left in my attic. I called for my friend and started to explore the attic. There were no valuables but...
Here is what we managed to find in my attic:
- K98 bayonet,
- German army binoculars (but lost ‘em while playing, years ago
),- Something what looks like an oxygen mask,
- Luftwaffe cup,
- Late-war, steel made canteen,
- Dienst-Brille container,
- WWI postcard,
- WWI tsar canteen or Weimar/early III Reich era paramilitary canteen (no markings),
- some sort of re-enforcement patch (marked epf 1942 WaA195),
- Imperial Germany buttons,
- Russian WWII gas mask filter type BN-L3 f(M38) used with Schlem Mask M1,
- RAD cup,
- Two canteen nuts – one from M31 canteen, the other one from Russian WWII canteen,
- Postcard depicting Warschau Opera (from the WWI),
- Three German bread coupons (on the other side are printed Polish docs from 1946 year).
- Russian WWII shovel.
I know that condition of most of this specimens is not excellent or even poor but I feel very close connection with them, they still remain treasures form me (maybe not in a meaning of its market value). These are one of my first specimens and I’m very positive I’ll never sell them.
I found some other stuff, maybe even more interesting but civil stuff is not a topic here...
Anyway, feel free to post Yours home - attics or cellars finds including stuff that was brought home by vets.
Best regards
Owner was 12 years old girl...
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