Kriegsmarine collection from Croatia

[Svante]

I had Said it before and I say it again...A very beautiful KM collection.

Merry Christmas from Thai and me

Svante

[amiklic1]

Greetings!

[Arguan]

Very nice km collection!

[kaiserwilhelm2]

Not a KM guy myself but I can appreciate a dedicated and well displayed collection.

[amiklic1]

And finally the last display got it's glass door. No more dust ;-)

[PZKG]

Very, very, very Nice!

[reinoudmilitary]

Nice display!

Watch out with leather headgear and Styrofoam display heads, it's not good for it.

[Eddie]

Fantastic collection and display

[amiklic1]

Nice display!

Watch out with leather headgear and Styrofoam display heads, it's not good for it.

I am working on a solution where I will put something between leather and the styrofoam. Hope that will be OK.

[amiklic1]

Yesterday I figured out the way to display 4 more caps in a display case,
and here is the result I got today ;-)
Couldn't put more because they will shade the lighting.

As my collection is growing, I feel the space limit more and more, every day.

Today, in 6 sq. meters (room 10' x 7') I managed to display:

- 11 mannequin torsos
- 32 pieces of headgear on the heads
- 5 swords
+ numerous other pieces which are even hard to count.

As a friend said recently to another fellow collector,
"Ask Andjelo how to organize the collection display, from that one wall
you'll get three :-) ".

[amiklic1]

It's been a long time since I haven't shown something new, and the truth is that new artifacts keep coming.

Here is a nice K.u.K. Kriegsmarine Flottenrock (Austro-Hungarian navy), which is currently a restoration project I am working on.
These items are pretty rare, and when I bought it striped I couldn't imagine that I will try to find the buttons for over the year :-).

[amiklic1]

Gorgeous Royal Yugoslav naval full dress epaulettes landed to my room recently, also.

[amiklic1]

As I have an Iron Cross 1st class which belonged to Linienschiffsleutnant Rudolf Singule, the commander of Austro-Hungarian U-boat U-4, who torpedoed and sank the Italian flagship in 1915, after many years of searching I have found a cap tally from Giuseppe Garibaldi ship. I was so focused on this item on the auction that I haave missed some more great pieces which went for bargain

[amiklic1]

Than, a special piece came in sight. An extremely rare officer's brocade dress belt of kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy).

This is the first time I ever saw something similar, so I am really happy it will land here.

Attached is also a photo of the book page in which similar piece was published.

I dates back to 1870s ;-)

[starikurac]

Wow! That is some collection you have there!!