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    Stuttgart, the show, the friends and the badges

    Hi Guys,

    Thought I start this thread to give you some impressions about Stuttgart and our finds. Maybe everybody who has pics of the show and the badges they found could post them in here. That would give us a good overview of quality and quantity arround.

    I didn't take any pics of dealer tables (to busy looking at items) so I'll start with the 16.00 meeting on the first floor

    View on what was going on downstairs
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    The friends, about 25 of the Forum members met for a first beer
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      From left to right, Marcus, J******246;rn, Skip, Yours trully, Greg
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        Later that evening about 20 of us made it to the restaurant (thanks for organizing this Walle )

        Here we had some strange kind of erzats Pizza called "Wichtel Kuchen"
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          the home made beer was serves in 1,5 liter vessels like shown by Frank and we had quite of few of these
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            While Frank was signing some GAB books
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              others were bussy sharing ice cream
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                And lifelong friendships were in the making (this was taken long after midnight and I'm not sure the parties involved remember) At least we know that they went home seperatly
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                  As to the serious stuff, the badges.

                  Much like I expected the only stuff available in abundance were the new fakes we recently discussed. Finding original badges in halfway decent condition for acceptable prices wasn't easy. Compared to last year, prices for combat badges were up with at least 20% and you didn't need all your fingers to keep count of good early hollow buntmetal badges.

                  here are some of the badges I brought back for my own collection

                  First an upgrade for my bronze RK PAB (Txs Frank )
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                    RK reverse
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                      Finally a bronze brother for my silver GWL.

                      Not mint but still a lovely badge that developed a bit of a strange patina
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                        GWL reverse.

                        Notice the catch. Picked it up thinking it had a replacement catch
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                          But upon closer examination this catch has been sitting on this badge since it left the factory, finish and patina on the catch match the rest of the badge.
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                            catch detail
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                              next a lovely type 9 mini to match its silver brother
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