SOS Pickup- AS Minesweeper

[Thomas Durante]

Hi guys,

Just back from the SOS, great show for me. Sold a few Para books, but the best part was hanging out with my WAF buddies. Along with my Heer and Luft finds, I was able to snag this unmarked Minesweeper by AS. Still has some decent gilding on the wreath in the recesses and a good bit of the matt silver finish on the reverse. Hope you guys enjoy this one as much as I do.

A big thanks to Norm for helping me authenticate this one before I picked it up. Great to finally meet him for the first time and finally put a face to the name.

Tom

[scott3000]

love the color on that one and if Norm says its good well than its good

[Norm F]

Hi Tom,

Of course it was my pleasure to help, and it was really great meeting you and the others at my first ever SOS!

Wasn't all that productive a show for me given my narrow and esoteric focus these days , but I certainly have no regrets whatsoever for attending - a real cultural experience and I'm glad you and many others got some really nice things.

Best regards,
---Norm

[Nick Carraway]

Sweet one Tom! Great to meet you as well Norm. Love the pics of your dad in the book.

[Blued]

Great early war piece Tom! Lots of nice finish on this guy, especially on that plume.

[juoneen]

I like the honest wear pattern, as there is a lot more to be said for badges actually worn in combat than just minty factory bin pick ups. Congrats, and Nice badge.

[Martin W]

Nice badge Tom.

Sounds like a good time was had by all at the SOS.

I have made a lot of friends in the collecting community over the years and i would sure like to meet them.It seems that the SOS is the place.

Hopefully one of these years i will be able to get there.

Glad you all got to meet and pick up some "goodies" too.

Regards,Martin.

[Christopher G.]

Another nice addition Tom...really love the worn look of this one and they guy obviously wore that one through the good and bad.

Chris

[ddbinks]

Very cool piece Tom!!

[Ralph Arndt]

I like it.

[Indycollector]

Really nice badge! Just enough wear to give it that "been there" look with enough guilding remaining to still look really nice. Great find.
Indycollector

[fdodge]

Much nicer than as described when we spoke Tom That's really a beauty.
OK, now I'm just sick of seeing what you all brought home

[BubbaZ]

Hi Tom,
Very nice AS in triangle Minesweeper Congrats on such a cool pick up! I see many members returned home more than satisfied from SOS I was very close to go there too but finaly had to give it up due to other soon long voyage. Instead I went to Berlin last weekend to Preussiche Sammlerbörse and it was a big mistake I must say... There was completely nothing interesting there maybe except of tons of fakes, some of them quite unusual. I was able to notice that for example 'feathered eagle' minesweeper fakes now can be found with many different hardware variants
Cheers,
Hubert

[Thomas Durante]

Thanks gents, I knew you guys would like 'er.

Tom

[Tom Yanacek]

Hi Tom,

That's a real looker. Congratulations on the nice additiion.

Best regards,
Tom