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04-20-2016 10:00 AM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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With his eye firmly fixed on the incoming birdie, Heinrich makes a valiant effort to return volley during the March 1942 Demjansk shuttlecock tournament........
Last edited by Danmark; 04-21-2016 at 03:31 AM.
Reason: cant spell for sheet
" I'm putting off procrastination until next week "
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He looks miserable. I would be too directing traffic in that weather out on a wind swept barren plain!
Nice pick up. I almost pick one up with the logo last year but turned out to be fake!
M
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My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
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Yes there are a lot made for the living history movement Michael and those paper covered 'Halt Polizei' ones are 99% fake.
" I'm putting off procrastination until next week "
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Danmark
Yes there are a lot made for the living history movement Michael and those paper covered 'Halt Polizei' ones are 99% fake.
Hi Dan,
Who knows what tales a piece like that can tell?
I think these will always be difficult to authenticate as they continued in use post war for many years by German Civil Police, Bundeswehr and all NATO MPs in Germany as well as military units regulating their own movements. Initially they were old Wehrmacht items then remanufactured followed by the addition of the words Halt Polizei (only used by actual police or MP personnel). We had dozens of them in every unit but nobody wanted them once the really "Gucci" battery powered electric lit white plastic model came along
Do you have any provenance for this relic?
Regards
Mark
It is true that they are re-produced for re-enactors but there is no need with so many floating around even yet on the surplus market.
Last edited by Watchdog; 04-21-2016 at 03:12 PM.
Reason: typo
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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I believe they might have been part of quite a few vehicle tool/equipment kits too?
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earlymb
I believe they might have been part of quite a few vehicle tool/equipment kits too?
Yep, for sure! Along with the NATO convoy flags (blue,green,red,yellow and black/white)
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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I meant in earlier times ;-)
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earlymb
I meant in earlier times ;-)
There are many odd scratches on it that could well have been from storage bin rough handling. More than just because it was in the ground.
Dan
" I'm putting off procrastination until next week "
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