Digging in Norway & Kurland

[MAP]

Can't wait to see the final product! Amazing condition for sitting out in the elements for 70+ years.

[kradman]

ddx = Voigtlaender , nice find

[verdammt]

The item "Mystery Rust" on your site

https://www.hobbyhistorica.com/uploa...n2384_orig.jpg
https://www.hobbyhistorica.com/uploa...n2383_orig.jpg

is a horse curry comb. Similar to here:
VINTAGE METAL HORSE Curry Comb Tooled Leather Handle Strap Primitive Equestrian - $12.99 | PicClick

[inka]

Here is an unusual one. This belt and buckle came out of a old house some days ago directly to my hands. The house stood on a site which held a Wehrmacht run prison during ww2 and also a Heer camp and POW camp. Never seen such a buckle before

[Tomasz70]

Nice belt and buckle! According to "Afrikakorps: Tropical Uniforms of the German Army 1940-1945" by Jacques Scipion and Yves Bastien, this is the buckle of Wehrmacht penalty units (penalty battalions, companies) as prosecuted soldier were not entitled to wore national emblems neither on the uniform nor on the belt buckle.

[inka]

Shortly after I posted this earlier today I found out what the buckle is,,it is from the Norwegian NS "Hirdvaktbataljon" which later was renamed SS-Wachtbattalion Nord and they guarded different installations but was also used as guards in some of the most brutal prison camps in Norway during the war.

[inka]

Today I visited the British War Graves here in Tromsø. R.I.P.



Pic of each grave here--> https://www.hobbyhistorica.com/fores...raves-in-troms

[inka]

Finally I managed to get myself out in the forest to find some old German rust and concrete




Full report-->>> HKB 20/972 ANSNES - HOBBYHISTORICA

[Hellraiser]

Very nice location!, but looks like the buildings are completely stripped in comparison to your previous hunting grounds

[inka]

True this place could do with a little clean up,it would make it so much more attractive,,

Here is a tiny videoclip I made from one of the positions there:

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