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Very Nice Collection Don, I think thats the first time ive seen it in its entirety. Its nice to see someone stick to one area of the hobby unlike me, who has his hands everywhere. Do you think you would ever purchasse a Item like a tunic or a dagger?

Thanks Dave, Ive had that tunic for a couple years now, other then that problem its missing a couple buttons and its belt hooks, I am still undecided on what to do with it. Any suggestions?

One from my neck of the woods They have a neat little museum here in Niagara On the Lake, if anyone is ever around. Dan

One of mine I used to have a list of the Makers on the cases for these, Ill try and dig it up

Looks great Andy, And Hes right about the Maker. By the way, I think these are the nicest awards out there. Dan

Training, and himself as a young man Hope everyone enjoys.

The boat and the crew

One of my clients gave me this a while back, hes a very handy wood carver, and he made me this hand carved copy of the "Zerst?rer 15 Erich Steinbrinck", He served on this ship for the later part of the war, Let me tell you how nice it is to get a phonecall at 9.00am with a hard german voice saying "Dan I have A Destroyer for you" We chatted for a bit, but he had to leave at ten, anyhow heres a pic of the model, and some photos he gave me. Enjoy! Everything is hand carved from the hull, to the guns and the life rafts, he is very good, and has many other carvings throughout the house, His wind chime is a Stuka, with full markings that spins in the wind He told me in school, he had a card that showed he was enlisted to go to the Officers training acadamy, The SS used to show up at school and get all the boys to join, he used to have to show this card, becuase when he said no he didnt want to join they would get mad, and say WHAT is wrong with the SS, you have to join!!!!! But after showing the card, he would be ok. He had many funny storys ill have to get taped and in writeing, He said at the end of the war they surrenderd to the English, and everyone but the Technical crew was sent to a pow camp, the Tech crew stayed behind to help the english sail it to England, but that night they all got drunk together and the germans started to throw the english overboard, afterthat they were all rounded up and detained, And the russians came in and took the boat. Zerst?rer 15 Erich Steinbrinck Does anyone know of a website, where I could research the history of this ship, and crew. Thanks so much, Id like to put a little book together for him on his vessel. Thanks Dan

My pleasure, If your ever around ill have you over for a cup, we can of course Irish it up a notch

Another Shot

Some of you might have seen this before, but others not, and Its one of my favorite pieces, so here she is.

The second, sadly i should of photographed it before placeing it in the frame, as the image doesnt come out aswell, but this one is my favorite. Dan

While fixing a furnace at work today, I noticed these two posters laying on the floor close by, they used to hang in the post office the man told me during the war, and his father kept them. but to him they were just rotting away and growing mold, ive been able to clean them pretty nicely. And he was more then happy to pass them unto me, once I told him my interests, as he said they would of just been thrown in the garbage had I not of come along. Dan

I did it early in the Morning, hopeing no one would see, but one gentleman did while walking his dog, It turned out I knew him, and he got a real kick out of it, Thankfully the owner of the house is in florida while we renovate, he would be less entertained as his last name is similar to Greenbaum, lol Dan

and one more, not as exciteing

And heres a great picture of it in use during a Hitler youth hockey game, mind you id trade it all for one of the HJ's hockey jersey's.

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I thought I would post this banner, as it is the first purchase I have made since becomeing a member here, it measures 25 feet by 5 feet. and is quite the handfull. The kids at work had fun climbing on the roof of one of my customers houses to drapse it down the side.

FliegerBluse, excuse my spelling ive been out of the hobby for a while

My Luft admin.

I will post better Pictures tommorow, but this is my favorite tunic, not the best shape but certainly the most charactor, the reverse has the best part. I also have the trousers for this tunic, sadly the medals were stripped before i recieved it, aswell a cat had its way with the left side.

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Thanks Paul, Ill have to take more photos tomorrow as I seem to have lost all my old files. But heres what I have.

Hi Don, Thanks so much, and thanks to everyone else aswell, ive taken some time off from the hobby to sort out my messy life, but all is starting to clean up and i can finnally start to have some fun again

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