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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:25:03 PM EDT
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The stuff my dad brought back from WW-II (P-38, P-08, and 38h all with holsters) and his photo album/scrap book fro the same time frame. My Aunt and Uncle have a helmet my dad brought back, I'm trying to get back from them. I also have a Nazi podeum banner and a couple sets of binoculars he found in the U-Boat pens in Brest France. He still has all his medals and his uniform from when he retired from the Air Force in 1964.
As for stuff I have collected myself, I have a lot of police hats from England, Scotland and Germany. I also have a DOD police badge from a place called Cameron Station in Alexandria VA, that no long exists. Finally I have a plaque with all the Uniformed Secret Service badges up until 1997, including Presidential Inaguration badges. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:27:02 PM EDT
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My dad sold me his copy of a book autographed by Little Al Unser. Its my inheritance. Wanna buy it?
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:30:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:33:29 PM EDT
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Hey, I just took a pic of one of those, in similar condition but running (?) for sale in Horbart, OK. Has a tag that said "M2A1, was M2..." |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:34:59 PM EDT
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A watch fob I found while helping clean up my grandmothers house after she had passed (she was 97) this was probably my grandfathers, on it it says" Duralumin used in the Airship Akron. under that it says Made by the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, Akron Ohio" I've no idea where my Grandfather got it...also has a small image of a Zeppelin on it
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:39:03 PM EDT
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My father was a radio man on a B17 during WWII. I have his brass dogtags and chain.
After the war, he stayed into radios. I have his ham radio mic. My mom was from Ireland and an ambulance driver in England during WWII. She drove a 2 1/2 ton ambulance. My brother has her paperwork and uniform pins from the Civil Defence in England. A lady, that owns an Irish Pub in my patrol area, is from Ireland and her mom was an ambulance driver during the same time. I wonder if they knew eachother? _________________________  |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:40:05 PM EDT
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I collect Soviet and some Russian mechanical watches. Poljot and Vostok mostly. I have three military issue "Strela" chronographs. These watches were used by Soviet and Warsaw Pact fighter pilots, as well as Soviet cosmonauts. The Strela uses the 19-jewel 3017 calibre column wheel movement. My favorite is this near mint 1966 Sekonda:
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:41:15 PM EDT
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It's a tossup.
1970 Mets Yearbook - with autographs of Tom Seaver , Tommie Agee and a couple other Amazin Mets.   Nolan Ryan autographed ball ( commercial purchase)  |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:57:32 PM EDT
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Cool! I used to drive by Cray every day on the way to work. (1994-96 I worked for DEC) DEC had a T3E doing god knows what for DECWRL in Co Spgs... I used to chat with the "baby sitter" that Cray had on site. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:02:55 PM EDT
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Commemorative sword given to a relative during the civil war.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:05:54 PM EDT
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Hurt my feelings, but you do what you have to do. Thanks |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:08:44 PM EDT
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I have a pendent my grandmother got while she worked on the manhatten project at oak ridge.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:09:40 PM EDT
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Both of mine are M3's. I just purchased a complete engine that they used to train the Marines on how to rebuild them. Has not been run more than a couple hours at the most. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:10:51 PM EDT
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That is VERY rare hang on to it..... |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:11:15 PM EDT
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Damn! You win.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:15:28 PM EDT
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1966 Dodge D-Dart clone factory ordered they only made about 400 170 base model sedand with V8's and manual trans so this car is at least 1of400 probally much les due to the way it was ordered
That & some H-D stuff that was only availble to dealers as I worked for them for 10+ years |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:16:16 PM EDT
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my uncles belt buckle
 82nd airborne with 3 stars WWII 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:16:47 PM EDT
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I'm lucky enough not to have inherited too much yet.
My most prizes possession would probably be my '65 Fender Jaguar. My avatar. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:19:54 PM EDT
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Probably the rarest thing in the house is something I'm giving to the Japanese Historical Society. It's a book entitled, "Directory of Japanese in Southern California,' published in 1922. It was a report to the Emperor of Japan, a census of Japanese Families from this area.
The person at the Museum commented that few copies survived the turmoil of the war and that they would appreciate having it. My wife's father helped a local Japanese family when they went to a Relocation Camp and I guess the book never got returned to them.   |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:21:36 PM EDT
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Barry Sanders, what do i win 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:26:29 PM EDT
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My dad (family) has a really sweet highback chair w/ ottoman......family history says that my grandfather used to play poker with Harry Truman, at my familys home, in Silver Spring MD prior to and right after he became senator. It has been said that he would only sit in this chair.
I'll try to post opics if I can get some before I forget that I posted this. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:26:38 PM EDT
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My grandfather's pocket watch. I still carry his prayer card in my wallet to this day. He was a great man, and I wish I would have known more about his past.
An indian head penny from 1880. Dad left a bunch of them when he bailed. They're probably not worth much but how much other stuff do I have thats over 120 years old? |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:35:02 PM EDT
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She didn't pass out on your bed for new years covered in barf juice did she???? 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:43:29 PM EDT
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My prized possession:
 Real nylon fishnet 4-inch rayon fringe not the cheap 3-inch cotton crap One-piece PVC molded shoe and base. 8-mil oiled parchment shade Worth beaucoup bucks.....sweet! |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:43:35 PM EDT
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I have a Wayne Gretzky stick that he use in San Jose and scored a hat trick with.. Very cool with all the papers.. My dad talked him out of it while he was in the hospital with heart problems..
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Posted: 2/21/2006 8:58:08 PM EDT
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i have a nazi FN high-power. fabrique nationale, herstal, belgique.
nazi buzzard stamped on the barrel, the receiver and the slide. internal extractor. sticky safety. original bluing, including the holster and grips. crappy sights. relic of WW2, original owner was a fighter pilot nailed over england. english guy picked it up out of a field which had a dead airplane in it, dead pilot too, lotsa fire and stuff, shit scattered all over the place. i was working on a framing crew at slow times, little old lady wanted remodeling done, heard us talking about shooting later while on the job, wanted $500 towards her bill on the pistol, almost broke my arm getting my wallet out fast enough. still shoots good, not much barrel wear. i'll carry it.... |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:20:54 PM EDT
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I have a fluted Folsom.
I also have an odd knife taken from a Japanese soldier killed by a (deceased) neighbor friend in the Phillippines. It appears to be made of bronze and has some religious characters on it and something like buffalo horn panels for the grip. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:31:52 PM EDT
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for me...
a Nazi , swaztica proofed Checker game piece....and some pieces of shrapnal from the base that my grandfather trained at before he was shipped out for WWII. also a ton of old boxcar keys and a lock , from my grandfather, as he worked on the RR for years....as well as a gold cross on a necklace, again my grandfathers, he had it since he was a young guy in Lebanon, before he came to the states (and joined the army). |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:33:10 PM EDT
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Not worht alot but kinda neat to me baseball sized chunk of the Berlin wall
have all my grand dads and dads medals and misc stuff from their army careeers |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:38:29 PM EDT
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I have several baseballs and bats signed by a whole bunch of 1980's New York Yankees.
The glove I used to play softball in high school was given to me by Luis Tiant. Having a dad that worked at Yankee Stadium was very cool for a kid! 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 10:25:11 PM EDT
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A number of years ago my grandmother gave me a small glass vial in a cardboard tube that contained a sample of motor oil from the Graf Zeppelin. She received it from a family friend who got it after taking the transatlantic leg of the airships famous circumnavigation of the globe. One of the engineers thought to bottle the ships waste oil up and sell them as souvenirs.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 11:09:50 PM EDT
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Have all my grandfathers medals and such from his time in WWII
Rarest would have to be the shrapnal from a Grerman shell that hit him while he was in the Ardennes Forest, also have the Purple Heard that he got as a result. |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 3:59:48 AM EDT
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I have my grandmother's teddy bear. It is priceless.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 4:15:45 AM EDT
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My hand assembled/hand painted (by me
) model kit of Vampirella.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 4:43:00 AM EDT
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A few more of my things. I have so much personal and collection stuff scattered about the house. The first is this German WWI bier stein from my Uncle Lorenz.
 While stationed in Germany in the 80’s I found this Luftwaffe hand carved oak presentation plate at a thrift shop on post for $2.00! The inscription reads “For 10 years of work in the Luftwaffe Minsk the 15th of May 1944”.  I met and married Frau Quib while stationed in Germany. Every weekend her mother would cook me Sunday dinner. I would help clean up after dinner and would take scraps outside to the dogs. First time I took scraps to the dogs I was amazed to find this plate laying in the mud of the dog pen. I quickly hosed it off and went up stairs to show my wife. I couldn’t believe the dogs were eating off WWII collectables! My mother-in-law saw me with the plate and says “Ah, that’s ok, they can eat off it. I have a whole set here in the cupboards”. Sure as shit she had about two full matching dinner services!    If I get downstairs today I’ll try and find and post pics of the brick I took from the remains of Hitlers house. I also have German WWII pics from a veterans photo album along with the soldiers military drivers license. |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 4:43:42 AM EDT
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What kind of airplane is that? Do you have any more pictures of the plane? If you do, I'd love to see them. I've always been fascinated with WW1 planes and pilots. It took a real man to fly in one of those things. |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 5:00:08 AM EDT
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I have a "slave document." that details the sale of land by description and teh sales of 9 slaves male and female ages from 12 - 50. Its over 150 yrs old.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 5:29:40 AM EDT
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I've gotta read this thread....but I am on my way ou the door, so I will post quickly....
I guess my single coolest collectable is my complete RZ-20 parachute rig...canopy, D-bag, harness and bag, and carrying bag. This is the main WWII German Fallschirmjager chute. Used on the jump on Crete.... But its hard to say...I also have a real Waffen SS helmet with runes, which is worth a hefty sum...for a helmet. My collection is quite large, so its hard to decide.... |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 5:36:16 AM EDT
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prom king crown? I guess not many has one of those. diploma? First in the family, atleast I do have a coin collection that was given to me that I am usre some of htem are worth bundles |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 5:47:10 AM EDT
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 My dad's medals from WWII. He passed away 18 years ago and it means a lot to me. |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 5:55:29 AM EDT
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The above plane is a Vickers Gunbus No1621 that was a RAF plane forced down by the Germans in February 1915. The Germans then pressed it into service. You can still see the RAF circle marking underneath the right wing. Here are a couple other planes he flew. This is a Aviatik AK1  And finally this is a Albatross DIII built by OAW.  These are the only pictures I have of the planes he flew. Just becuase, here is his pilots medal (which distibguished himself from other members of military) as a flyer. You would see tankers where the same kind of medal only with a tank on it etc. Again you can see him wearing it on the picture on the first page.  And his sawback bayonet. Supposedly (you know how those family storys go) if he crashed he could saw himself out of the plane.  I did a ton of research and talked with many people to find out information on the planes and medals. |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 5:56:04 AM EDT
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An autographed pic of Fred Bear with my wife & me.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 6:05:29 AM EDT
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I got a Civil War Union signaal corps map. My ancestor used it during the civil war, before he was captured, wrote on it and mailed it to his wife to tell her where he was or something like that. Although its not worth a whole lot because my great grandmother decided to glue it to a piece of wood and frame it. Now its hanging on the wall in my bedroom. My family had alot of other stuff too like his letters, his release from the army signed by Abe Lincoln, and whatever else. But we donated it all to a civil war museum in Richmond Virginia, thiy idnt want the map btw since it was glued to the piece of wood.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 6:43:43 AM EDT
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My German Grandmother remarried twice after my real Grandfather came up MIA during the end of the war. Her third husband was a Navy WWII vet and the only Grandpa I knew when I was born. This is a pic of him along with a pic of his dog tags.
 I have no idea what the bottom disc is, it was in the box with the dog tags. I thought maybe one of you might know what it is.  My Grandpa’s sister was a Army Nurse during WWII. This is a pic of her along with a pic of her 2nd LT rank and insignia from her uniform. I never knew my Grandma had these items until she moved into an assisted living facility and I bought her house. We found them while packing up her things and moving mine in.  
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Posted: 2/22/2006 6:51:00 AM EDT
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you all have some pretty cool stuff. on the other hand, you won't find any of that stuff in my house. no siree bob, you'll find my kid's toys, my wife's shoe collection, some furniture, a tv, and some other stuff. after marriage all my cool stuff was sold at yard sales because it was "junk" and taking up space.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 7:02:46 AM EDT
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That looks like the same kind of tag miners used to indicate whether they were above or below ground. |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 7:04:01 AM EDT
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Robert E. Lee's monogrammed hankie
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Posted: 2/22/2006 7:09:04 AM EDT
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I have this old rapier sword... Don't have pics of it for various reasons... but now I think I shall take a pic or two of it.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 7:09:15 AM EDT
[#49]
 You must have won a 'major award'! Good one.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 7:11:47 AM EDT
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Look! It says "FRA -GEE - LAY!" |
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