first military fair of 2011

[Zeller]

This morning I went to the first fair of 2011 for me and I enjoyed it a lot.
The location is Slovenia, there are usually 4 fairs each year and sellers come from all over southern Europe: there are italia,slovenian,german and austrian dealers.
It is mainly WW1 oriented, with a lot of dug stuff but you can also find good WW2 stuff. It is, as everywhere, heavily polluted with fakes, but most of them are so evident not to be dangerous.

I like that fair because it's not for me a big spending day and it's more like a big fleamarket rather than a more blasoned event: I usually buy few items but I seldom come out with empty hands.

Here are my today purchases:

1. one interesting german late war mess kit, engraved by a slovenian partisan. It is dated 28.4.1945 Italija and it makes me think it comes from my hometown, where the partisans just started the offensive that date.
2. a bunch of interesting period pics , some are of german police in combat probably around here.
3. a nice silver sympathy badge for neckchain
4. a shortened Gretschen stunningly retaining all the colour and writings. It was probably kept on a desk as a war souvenir. Now it's on my desk

[Paul D]

Like the Gretchen Matt !!

[Zeller]

Hi Paul,
yep me too, that's the kind of things you may occasionally find there. It is obviously empty as my pockets and inert