07-02-2018, 02:16 PM | #1 |
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WWII bringback treasure
From my father-in-law. WWII vet recently passed away. Not sure if I posted this before, maybe somewhere else?? My memory is crap lately. These were bring back items he wanted to stay in the family, and seeing we have the only grandkids.....
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07-02-2018, 03:43 PM | #2 |
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Very nice Sir
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07-02-2018, 03:46 PM | #3 |
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WOW! very nice!
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07-02-2018, 04:13 PM | #4 |
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Nice! Have you shot the Luger, yet?
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That is a treasure. Do you know if the SS dagger and the Luger were captured together or were they taken separately?
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He has a lot more similar stuff that the in-laws have pretty much said are mine if I want. Of course we all know my answer to that! No pics, but I aquired several of his civil war swords as well. |
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07-02-2018, 06:59 PM | #7 |
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Good man RetVet good for you.
And say a thanks for your Father in Law serving during those miserable times.
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VERY nice pair. "My honour is loyalty".
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07-05-2018, 06:24 PM | #9 |
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Truly things of beauty, RetVet.
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Congratulations!
Very nice.
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One of my childhood buddies has two large trunks...STUFFED...with German WWII bringback stuff...Lugers, medals, daggers, hats, helmets, STUFFED. They were his Dad's WWII bringbacks. His Daddy was a tank commander with G.S.Patton's armor. His Dad passed away over twenty years ago.
Some years ago I took him in as a guest at the big OGCA show at the old GM tank plant in Cleveland...there are several "WWII German/Nazi stuff" guys that buy and sell... who set up there. He took a dagger with a blood red handle that looked like the one you posted. And a SS officers visors cap. Both of those "collectors" told us the dagger and cap were both"reproduction items" and offered a stupid low price. I recall his Father showing both of us what he had in those locked trunks when we were maybe ten years old. I can see now how those scumbags "make" the money they do. My buddy, John, got pissed off and was starting to argue with the last guy we talked to. I told him not to bother... that the asshole was a con artist. /
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07-07-2018, 04:38 PM | #12 |
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A guy that I knew offered me two Lugers
for $100 a piece, back in the early '70's... I knew that they were hot and I didn't buy them... I hate a thief, I sometimes wish that I had a Luger ... just not those... Funny but that thief later became a cop and I thought about those Lugers every time I saw him... |
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from what i've been told over the years many things where brought back from WWI, WWII, Korea and Nam... interesting things with the ( happy ) switch.
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He met some "collectors" who had been advertising in the paper, in their hotel room. They pulled the same thing, saying the Nazi dagger with an ivory hilt and silver braid wrap was a reproduction - but "a very good one" and gave him $50 for it. Then they gave him $25 for a Mauser bayonet w/ scabbard. Wish he would have kept that bayonet. I liked it. Dad figured they ripped him off, but he also had nothing invested in it but his time, so figured he made out all right. |
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