Chris Boonzaier

You have a gift for understatement ... its a frigging AMAAAAAAZING collection.... Scrolling down this thread makes me feel humble... as if all my collecting life had been wasted..... This was.... astounding!

Well, having a lazy flip through the back pages.. I found this.... Out freaking standing.... That would be a sure firecentrepiece for a colletion... the Pussycats eyes.... the damascus blade.... the engravings.... untinkable with todays labour costs!!!! Look at the going away gifts armies give out nowdays......

I like it better than a shiny, out the box one... they are a dime a dozen ;-)

Good? you mean GREAT!! ;-)

We live in a village that, during the war, had some red cross, some firemen etc. etc. Our old neighbour, an bitchy old woman, has never been more than 50kms form the village (she is over 80). The village got tarred roads in the 50s, a doctor in the 60s, people used to keep pigs in their backyards until the 60s, and drive cattle through the village. That may not go a long way to explaining the swords on this medal... but I think that in places like this... the ass end of the 1000 year reich... maybe they just stuck things together that looked "good enough" on a local level... Of course... 100% guesswork, and you may never be able to prove the bar is good or bad... but I would say... grey area.

There is so much good stuff just fading away... a bit like digging out an old Peter Tosh album ;-)

Stogieman pointed me in the direction of the Sledge auction some time ago... the piece in question had a leg at the back broken off (I dont thnk you can repair that, piece was missing anyway....) I think it went for about USd2500 or so...

Any way you want it.... as long as we get to see it

Our local U-Boot man was a POW in England, then in the USA..... Apparently he had a great time picking potatoes in the USA, and had a photo of "a lady of color" that he had a brief relationship with in captivity, he seems to have had a great and sincere liking for her. He could speak no german, only thick Bavarian... and I always wondered how he made himself understood with all then "Northern germans" in the Navy....

You said.... paperweight.... what kinda paper you have that needs a 3 foot bomb???

How do you find all of these ????

Sooooooo..... bit of water under the bridge... was reading this and wondering what answers had popped up ??

Is there a big difference between the Spanish madeand german made? I just remember the thin and thick rings on them...

4 slits on the sides... front cut off and folded back...

Although not officially used in the boer War... this commercial british Dum Dum was found in the brit positions on the Colesburg battlefield from the Boer war... it is a classic Dum Dum... factory made.

So... any advances on this?? We are still at WW1.... I also thought Vietnam would be the origin...

Ooooooh.... that be one sexy trio.... who CARES about twins!!!!!

almost a year has passed here.... I am sure we have a few memebrs wh have recieved this badge? any photos out there of them in uniform with it on their chests?

Can you build pam Andersons Rack? It might be more fun ;-)

Good for you! lets see the finished result!!!!

I guess I visit the wrong flea markets....

Do you have anymore good brazilian things to post? Some of the WW2 stuff was pretty cool....

Ahhhh ... the rolled up newspaper in the deriere was for the SA sport badge!!!

I dont want to get involved in this as it is so far out of my field, but I think it would be a great forum project.... so here goes.. 1) guys, if this is in the initial debating stages, reason with each other and think of it all all points of view... dont go at it cudgels and chains as to what should be in there and what should not be right from stage one. 2) remember there are things like annexes... if something does not fit 100% but is of interest, it could be included as a seperate "bonus" to the book 3) everyone running their own way and just doing may mean very different qualities and types of work, someone who coordiantes is a must.... and it does not have to be an expert in the subject... many good managers have bugger all knowledge about the nuts and bolts of what they are managing...

I have always beena fairburn sykes fan, but have never seen one like this. It is indeed a nice knife!!!