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Anyone here collect WW2 antiques? How did you get started and where do you find pieces?
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WWAWD WW2 Memorabilia?
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My best man is from the island of Kefalonia and there was a forest fire near his town so he and his brothers went thru there after and found an old WW2 Nazi helmet in the ashes. All the leather and stuff was burnt off but the steel remained obviously.
Any markings were burned off too
Any markings were burned off too
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My dad has a bolt-action .22 Hitler Youth rifle made by Walther that he bought from a junkie in the 70s for next to nothing. It's a great target gun, stock is in bad shape though and partially duct-taped near the end of the barrel
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Never bought, only inherited some cool stuff from the ETO, incl. a still functioning pistol (all legal). I'll never sell any of it.
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I have several Spanish Mausers that were used in the Spanish Civil War, and I have a Finnish Mosin that was used in the Winter War and WW2.
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On a side note, my Dad was a gun dealer so he could get better prices on firearms, and after the fall of the Soviet Union he was buying SKS's and AK47's for about 90bucks a piece... Apparently, the Soviets had built a massive warehouse, stuffed it full of arms, and then buried it so in case they were ever invaded again they could dig it up and arm everyone.
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In highschool, my dad took me and my buddy to some huge flea market and I found some old army helmet (can't remember who) with a bullet hole in it that I wanted to buy and my dad and my buddy were both like "That's fucking weird, Abe." so I didn't get it. I still wish I did. I don't collect the shit or anything. I did buy a huge sheepskin vest that day though. It looks like it's made of bear fur or something. I thought it was badass viking shit and my dad was like "Where'd you find the Sonny Bono vest? You look like some fuckin hippie on a freakout."
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My dad took me to numerous gun shows as a kid, even as I think of it I can smell the stench of gun oil.
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WWAWD gun nut fathers. My dad angrily fired off his SKS in the backyard when Clinton got re-elected
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The way things are going, i think the gun nuts had/have the right idea....
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That's pretty cool, well except for the forest fire i guess.
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My grandfather had an Afrika Korps knife that he "liberated" from a Kraut he killed or captured. Wish I had it, but my old man donated it to some museum after his dad kicked the bucket.
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I have a lampshade made out of jewster skin, funster.
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I'm a fan of the era. All of my stuff has been inherited, but everybody involved with WWII kept souvenirs so they're super common, for the most part. You can go to pretty much any flea market in the country and find a couple of guys hawking stuff.
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There's only one subset of items worth owning
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Pretty much what I'm after
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I'm a fan of the era 
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My grandfather joined the Air Force right after WW2 ended and spent the next 25 years dropping hell on various kinds of Asians from various kinds of jets. He had some cool stories, but he didn't bring back a lot of souvenirs.
One thing he was fond of talking about is how they bombed the ever living fuck out of Cambodia during Vietnam even though they weren't supposed to. The guy fucking hated Cambodians.