Hi to everybody, I'm nearly new to this forum. I've joined several other forums before and now want to introduce me here.
I live in Germany and collect military stuff from 1977 (I was aged 10 years) on. It started with some badges and papers from my great grandfather (mothers side) who died that year and my parents throwed everything from him away. He was a Verdun-fighter 1916 and later in the Stahhelmbund and Volkssturm. I saved those things and that was the beginning of my passion as military collector. Later I've started to find out something about my family in the wartimes and recovered some interesting things.
Over the years I've specialized in more unusual item's, because I found out most people collecting firearms, badges, edged weapons and uniforms.
I found my passion into things like German military lanterns, tools, ovens, bicycles and handcarts from the past wars.
I also own a VW type 82 and a 82e, a 1941 Hercules Luftschutz light-motorcycle, a 1933 Jawa, a Cushmann folding bike from US para's and some Truppenfahrrad's from WH. I wan't to restore them all in the next years. I would like to put some stories and pictures into the forum. I've made lot's of expieriences with fakes and spend some money on ****. I would like to share all these with the members of this forum. Maybe somebody knows me from all the interesting places in Europe, where I travel (my favourite is the La-Gleize fair in the Ardennes, Belgium).
Yours TOBI
I live in Germany and collect military stuff from 1977 (I was aged 10 years) on. It started with some badges and papers from my great grandfather (mothers side) who died that year and my parents throwed everything from him away. He was a Verdun-fighter 1916 and later in the Stahhelmbund and Volkssturm. I saved those things and that was the beginning of my passion as military collector. Later I've started to find out something about my family in the wartimes and recovered some interesting things.
Over the years I've specialized in more unusual item's, because I found out most people collecting firearms, badges, edged weapons and uniforms.
I found my passion into things like German military lanterns, tools, ovens, bicycles and handcarts from the past wars.
I also own a VW type 82 and a 82e, a 1941 Hercules Luftschutz light-motorcycle, a 1933 Jawa, a Cushmann folding bike from US para's and some Truppenfahrrad's from WH. I wan't to restore them all in the next years. I would like to put some stories and pictures into the forum. I've made lot's of expieriences with fakes and spend some money on ****. I would like to share all these with the members of this forum. Maybe somebody knows me from all the interesting places in Europe, where I travel (my favourite is the La-Gleize fair in the Ardennes, Belgium).
Yours TOBI
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