Small part of my collection

[Herr_Pete]

Eidelweiss!! unless alpenrose is another name for it :p

[Thomen]

Originally Posted by Herr_Pete

Eidelweiss!! unless alpenrose is another name for it :p

Edelweiss.

http://www.edelweissgrowers.com/page2.html

[Herr_Pete]

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Herr_Pete

Eidelweiss!! unless alpenrose is another name for it :p

Ow yeh, that was it. :p

[Herr_Pete]

[Siara]

Where do you get cash from, for all that nice stuff?
Excellent.

[Herr_Pete]

I also sell many items so the money I make from selling i use to buy aswel

[Herr_Pete]

[Task Force]

Cool new pics. Nice stuff.

[TheBrauerHour]

Cool stuff!

All I have is a WWII American Steel pot helmet, and then my great uncle's bayonet and bloody bible and bloody letter to my grandmother he was writing.

He was cut down charging an MG42 nest. I keep the helmet in my classroom all the time as decoration. I bring the bible when I talk about D-Day. It makes a nice impression on my students.

[gandalf71]

Hi Herr_Pete,

where are you located in the UK, Scotland? Anyway you must have big houses over there, that you can store so much old rubbish...nevermind just kidding!

One remark on your "Wehrmacht Helme" collection, I don´t want to destroy your belief of origin, but from my point of view most of them are no military equipment and even post-war.
In Germany these helmets, especially this helmet shape is quite usual for fire-fighter helmets and they are in use even today.

This helmet for example:




is a fire fighter helmet for 100% sure, but it is also 3.Reich equipment...possibly the only one of your collection...it was used from 1938 on.
The other ones are most likely post-war. Metal helmets were used in the german fire departments, up to the early 70´s. But even with modern plastic helmets the classic shape still exists, e.g. Schuberth H2 (EN443) helmet:



I found this website for you, it should give you a quite good reference

http://www.derfeuerwehrhelm.de/neu/index.php?lang=e

By the way...this badge



...is also a post-war fire-fighter badge, didn´t find any grip on it, to prove it´s source exactly, but the symbols are common for fire-fighter related insignia. If it would be a 3.Reich insignia, it would carry the Swastika.

This guy on ebay sells this stuff, perhaps he can tell you more:

http://cgi.ebay.at/ABZEICHEN-AUFLAGE...mZ370004115670

Hope I didn´t bother you too much and I wish you:

"Gute Jagd und fette Beute!"

...for future additions to your collection!

Viele Grüsse,
Michael

[Herr_Pete]

Thank you for the wbesites Gandalf. I will have a good read at them now I do live in Scotland :p

Latest Addition to the collection:

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[Morts]

i would kill for your collection there

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