C&R porn for Old farts.
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Old War Horse that belonged to my Great Grandfather!
Ran across proxibid recently and now my gun fund is empty I may need to list some stuff, on the bright side though I caught one of my unicorns.
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Thank you,
Yea the story on how I got this is even Cool too.
Years ago I bought a box of Nazi Stuff from a lady at a Yard sale in the early 1990's.
I paid around 250.00 for all the stuff in the box as she just wanted the Nazi Stuff out of her house (her husband had passed and this was his War Trophies).
She had a few items at the table but I asked if she had any guns and the like she wanted to get rid of and she said she had a pistol and some Nazi stuff she wanted to sell. So I bought a Remington rand 1911 from her that day, the pistol cost me 500.00 and the box of Nazi stuff cost 250.00
I still have the Remington rand Pictured above and in the bottom of the box was this Ring that I thought was Fake.
I had never seen one like it so I put it away with some other Nazi Trinkets I have and forgot about it till around 2012 when I stumbled on it again.
I looked it up online and was surprised to find that this was actually Very Valuable if it was real.
So I had it Authenticated by Don Boyle (leading guy on these rings) and it turned out to be 100% real with a Value of 10k.
Although thats not something I would add to my collection, It sure was the best most profitable garage sale visit I have ever heard of.
Yes 10 Years after I bought it, as I thought it was just a Ring that was bought as a souvenir.
In post war Germany some of the Jewelers were making Souvenir Rings for the soldiers and I thought this was one of those.
In 1990 no internet to do research like we had in 2012
I know a man that comes to the Expo show occasionally. He wears a ring like that. It has his father's name in it, as well as Himmler.
Mine has Himmler and the recipients name: Schulz and his Presentation date of the ring 6/21/44.
Each ring had the recipient's name, the award date, and Himmler's signature engraved on the interior
I have had several people try and do the Research from the Deutsche Dienststelle list on this guy but Schulz is a Common name.
In celebration of the forth I think its fitting to share a picture of my little war machine that defended our liberty in two consecutive world wars!
If I had to guess, I'd say its a Savage Lend Lease rifle(based on the upper hand guard).
Very nice @Balthaz . I have always wanted to shoot an SMLE. If you have Netflix, check out The Siege of Jadotville...some nice ones as well as FALs in that movie...
New toy arrived today, next step is to break it down and then get some ammo for it. This will likely be the ugliest gun in my collection until I get my hands on a Dardick.
Its so ugly it almost goes full circle and becomes pretty again.
Its so ugly it almost goes full circle and becomes pretty again.