Achtung Kameraden!
Since my Monday is my 19th birthday, I thought this would be as good a time as any to share my modest collection with the WAF community. I have been collecting miltaria for about 2 1/2 years now.
Granted, my collection isn't nearly as big or as nice as most that you see here on the WAF, but it has been growing steadily and getting nicer. Thanks go out to fellow forum member Kondor, my mentor and friend, whose assistance contributed to the acquisition of several of the items in this collection.
Since my Monday is my 19th birthday, I thought this would be as good a time as any to share my modest collection with the WAF community. I have been collecting miltaria for about 2 1/2 years now.
Overall view of my collection
Medals and Helmets
Helmets I have are 2 Soviet M40s with postwar Czech liners, Ex-South African Israeli Brodie, 3 American M1s (vet purchased rear seam with net, a stainless steel rear seam, and a front seam), 2 German helmets (Black Czech NS62 with a paper decal and a Chinese ET68 "Edelweiss" repo), and an American Civil Defense Helmet (not pictured.)
Medals
All of the WWII Iron Crosses are repos. The Siver and Gold Wound Badges are paper cut-outs, representing what I still need to get.
Cloth Insignia
Rifles
Finnish-Captured M1891/30 Mosin-Nagant
Mannlicher-Berthier M1892/16 Carbine
"Peddle Scheme" 1918 Short Magazine Lee-Enfield
Mauser Kar98k "dot 1944"
All of these have their own seperate thread that I have posted in the past.
NVA-Wachregiment NCO Tunic
Repo M43 mit Gebirgjager Edelweiss, 1st Generation Rubber Bullets from the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, PA, "Dropped" Confederate Minie-Ball from the Gettysburg Battlefield, Fragment of wood from the USS Constallation.
My Dad's Dogtags and National Defence Service Medal from his service on the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) May 1972- April 1975
Cancer cruely took him away from me in March of 2006.
He was only 52 years old.
Medals and Helmets
Helmets I have are 2 Soviet M40s with postwar Czech liners, Ex-South African Israeli Brodie, 3 American M1s (vet purchased rear seam with net, a stainless steel rear seam, and a front seam), 2 German helmets (Black Czech NS62 with a paper decal and a Chinese ET68 "Edelweiss" repo), and an American Civil Defense Helmet (not pictured.)
Medals
All of the WWII Iron Crosses are repos. The Siver and Gold Wound Badges are paper cut-outs, representing what I still need to get.
Cloth Insignia
Rifles
Finnish-Captured M1891/30 Mosin-Nagant
Mannlicher-Berthier M1892/16 Carbine
"Peddle Scheme" 1918 Short Magazine Lee-Enfield
Mauser Kar98k "dot 1944"
All of these have their own seperate thread that I have posted in the past.
NVA-Wachregiment NCO Tunic
Repo M43 mit Gebirgjager Edelweiss, 1st Generation Rubber Bullets from the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, PA, "Dropped" Confederate Minie-Ball from the Gettysburg Battlefield, Fragment of wood from the USS Constallation.
My Dad's Dogtags and National Defence Service Medal from his service on the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) May 1972- April 1975
Cancer cruely took him away from me in March of 2006.
He was only 52 years old.
Granted, my collection isn't nearly as big or as nice as most that you see here on the WAF, but it has been growing steadily and getting nicer. Thanks go out to fellow forum member Kondor, my mentor and friend, whose assistance contributed to the acquisition of several of the items in this collection.
Mike.
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