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    #16
    ...very cool medal

    Originally posted by Erickn View Post
    ...have never received many comments. I purchased this cold meat w/SS clasp (watch fob?) in Bad Toelz mid to late 60s in a very small antique store for 1 DM. I find it interesting as the rank is pre-1934. E.
    Hello Erickn:
    A very cool medal, not that I collect medals, but I may have if I'd seen that one with the engraved SS clasp back when I started collecting in the summer of 1970. But instead I found as my first piece of purchased militaria a small size RKF - I bought it for $20 at a local gun show from a
    WW2 US Heavy Artillery veteran who got it after his unit point blank bombarded a French coast U-boat pen until the German Naval garrison
    surrendered. Still have that RKF, the first military flag in my collection - see below.
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    .......^^^ .................... some of my collection ...................... ^^^...

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      #17
      This piece was given to me by a childhood friend of my mom, who worked on the staff of a Gauleiter in Westphalia, i believe..have had this for many a moon and have been sorely tempted to sell when times were tougher...best non decision i have made when it comes to regalia..items come and go, but this has a little bit of flavour to it...
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        #18
        I was all excitied until I realized the thread was about medals .

        My first medal was bought for $5 in 1971 in Berlin when I was 11. It was an unribboned EKII (round 3), and yes - I still have it.

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          #19
          ... well, I must consider this Iron Cross to be my first piece ... I got it long time before I started collecting edged weapons. My grandpa gave it to me approx. 30 years ago. He was born in 1900 and survived both world wars. When I was a young boy in the 70´s, he gave it to me when I injured myself at his house and I was crying. He gave me the Iron Cross and told me that he received this Iron Cross long time ago because he was brave as well when he wanted to cry many times, but he couldn´t. So he told me to be brave as well and stop crying and I would receive from him this Iron Cross. I did not really understand the story that time, but I was happy to get this nice colored piece from my grandpa. Unfortunately he died many years before I became interested in collecting edged weapons. I found this Iron Cross by accident a few months ago in my parents house again. Without doubt ... it´s now really special to me.
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            #20
            Nice story!!

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              #21
              Well, I'm not a collector for very long (as a child until i was about 17, then it lay dorment for a while and now it has been back quite strongly for about 5 years (26 now)), as a child i received some bullits and pieces of shrapnell, my granddad (mothers side) found in trees (he had a sawmill ) (mostly Grebbeberg and Veluwe in Holland), and there was always the excitement of finding things at the big house my grandparents had. (an english machette, K98 belt, all bits and pieces made my day ). Then as i was 15, my dad returned from a trip to his mother and brought back a set of papers i consider one of the most precious things in my collection.

              It was the set of papers from my granddads (died before i could ever meet him) trial and persecution by the germans in holland. He was a resistance member, and was caught collecting adresses and spreading flyers and illegal newspapers and such. The group was betrayed by a man from a nearby town. And now i have the documents of the trial, nis entry into Lager Rheinbach, the card with his wages (that one still baffles me, you condem adissident, put him in a camp and force labour, and pay him, i mean, ?!?!). But that set is very dear to me. After my other granddad died, i found all his papers from his service days and mobilization and so.

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                #22
                i am named after both my grandpa's (Rutger Jacob, in general i am called Rutger Lokhorst) and still a bit weird to see your own name on the pages

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