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02-24-2011, 01:45 PM
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I have admired looking at your collection Jaime! Looking forward to putting mine up when I get back from Afghanistan.
Keep up the good work! Looks like you are a professional militaria hunter!
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02-24-2011, 01:49 PM
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Spanish Freiwillige is offline
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Originally Posted by K Bandow
I have admired looking at your collection Jaime! Looking forward to putting mine up when I get back from Afghanistan.
Keep up the good work! Looks like you are a professional militaria hunter!
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Will be waiting for it, stay safe
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02-24-2011, 05:54 PM
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02-25-2011, 09:25 AM
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When I was listening to all the stories of family mebers that fought in the war, some in the side of the allies others for Germany against Russia, etc, my grandfather, told me to accompany him and told me this was my contribution to the war, he took out huge bundle of paintings and told me:
The anglo-french institute in Mexico commissioned me, since he was a known painter, to make propaganda posters for the war effort. After the war the original material was discarded and he rescued it, and kept it to give it to me some day.

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Here is one of my favorites, I got the origonal gouge painting, the original magazine where it was published and I had the original poster but I gave it away to my godfather:
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02-25-2011, 09:35 AM
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I could stare at that DD m40 all day  ...beautiful.
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05-02-2011, 01:36 PM
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05-02-2011, 05:01 PM
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05-02-2011, 05:24 PM
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Very nice gravity knife
Mike
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05-24-2011, 11:58 AM
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05-24-2011, 12:02 PM
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Very nice collection you have mate, congrats!
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05-24-2011, 04:17 PM
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05-24-2011, 04:27 PM
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Nice collection ! I like the camoflaged m16 german helmet ! And the french of course
Carry on !
Best regards
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05-24-2011, 04:41 PM
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Very nice collection
Mike
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05-24-2011, 05:34 PM
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Unfortunately some headgear, binos and relics are confined to a samll cabinet for the time being..............
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05-25-2011, 10:14 AM
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Nice collection ! I like the camoflaged m16 german helmet ! And the french of course
Carry on !
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 The french helmet was a step into another world for me, as I had only collected German militaria form 1914 to 1980 (DDR) yet my father insisted that that helmet was an absolute must, and now I really like it
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