Vlaanderen...land of beauty

[Pieter Verbruggen]

Hahaha, the 'emperor' is the perpetrator...

L

...no the producer,...the perpetrator is some one else...still walking around enjoying the tons of $$$ it brought to him...
Pieter.

[petervkh]

verdinaso???

It is awfully silent in this thread nowadays.A pity.
Could this be an authentic Verdinaso?
Thank you.

[petervkh]

verdinaso???

More pics.

[willysproject]

No, alas

Kind regards,
Gerd V

[petervkh]

Any idea what it could be?The buttons are Assman "extra fein".Thank you for your reply.

[Luciusdegeer]

Not Verdinaso

L

[petervkh]

Anyone an idea what it could be then?Someone suggested me the leather strip seemed to be Dutch.
After some internet searching I found a picture with ressemblance.What do you think?
Greetings, petervkh

[NickG]

Those are Dutch Colonial troops. KNIL (Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger).
The canteen is a tropical pattern. It does resemble that in shape...but those are all officers with higher quality smooth wool
(or cotton) visor caps...Your cap I would determine as being a lower enlisted quality...

[werner p.]

E.Reitz bell came home !

6 years after the demolition of the buildings of the former E.Reitz uniformwerke at Merksem near Antwerp, the bell that was hanging at the gate doors for over 62 years, finally made her way home !

To me it is an historic piece. Maybe for some others it's just a bell.
But this is THE BELL of the E.Reitz Uniformwerke and everytime it tolls
I hear the sound of history !

Enjoy !

Werner

[Luc]

Werner

Waauw..Congratulations.. this is realy a centerpiece of your Reitz collection !!

[HouweTrouwe]

Indeed, agree with Luc about the Bell - it has to be the center piece and aswell many history attached to it. Do you have a war time photograph showing the bell?

P.S.
Luc, how are you doing nowadays? And your website - collection?

[dEVIL]

Congrats Werner !

What happend with the bell after the demolition, during those 6 years?
Best regards

[werner p.]

Congrats Werner !

What happend with the bell after the demolition, during those 6 years?
Best regards

The last director of the former Belga factory took it home.
He stayed in touch with me and now decided to let it go. Although he had received better offers for it, he has a consciousness for history and decided that it had to end up among other parts coming from the factory.
And then there is only one address of course

PW

[nibelung1876]

Hell's bell

Werner...that's fantastic.

Now it is really time to give a lecture about the Reitz factory.

Grtz, Glenn.

[P.Wasteels.]

Reitz bell

Hallo Werner,

This is an nice, and superb rigging tone of our country, , superb aquisition, congratulations to you'r finding (superb) !

Salutations,

Patrick.W.