2025 SOS Review

[Scott]

I haven’t done an OVMS Show of Shows (SOS) review in a while, and since I just attended the 2025 SOS, I thought I would.

 

The show was as large as ever: 2,000+ tables, and a plethora of militaria of all kinds. Since this is the Spanish forum, I’ll limit this to what I encountered from Spain and it’s allies in the Spanish Civil War (primarily Germany, Italy, and Russia). This show had more Spanish and Spanish-related militaria than previous shows which surprised and delighted me. There was plenty of Legion Condor (LC) items to be found: German Spain crosses of each grade, LC medal bars and ribbon bars, even some Italian and Russian military medals, insignia, and ephemera. Of course there were Spanish items as well, some from some from the Spanish Civil War and WWII periods, but mostly from the modern era (post WWII to modern day). I can’t vouch for the reasonableness of asking prices, but I found most vendors were open to reasonable offers on the few items I purchased.

 

Some of the best displays were at the tables of Giel's Militaria, VFMR Orders & Medals, and the Francois Saez collection, but other, smaller vendors also had some Spanish militaria to offer. I’ll let the photos below tell the rest (the white spots in many of the photos are a reflection of the overhead lights).

 

Salud!

More 2025 SOS photos . . .

More 2025 SOS photos . . .

Edited 3 hours ago by Scott