Sensei's Collection - The Air War
This May I celebrated 4 years in this hobby. It's been a hell of a fun journey with great people and great historical items that I can study for days on end.
I began this collection 4 years ago with my mom surprising me with a few Japanese bank notes issued in Burma and the Philippines that I still have to this day.
In the beginning I just basically bought anything that I deemed interesting enough and ended up with a bunch of items that I lost interest in very quickly, like a bad conditioned Reichswehr Buckle and a ground down K98 Bayonet. But over time I started focus more on quality rather than quantity and focused on items with more historical value (to me atleast) and that lead me to the Air War. Something just caught my attention really hard with their uniforms, the class displayed between the rivals and the bombing campaigns etc... And that is what I have my focus on to this day, the war in the skies. I firstly started off buying mostly Luftwaffe items just because of the quality and designs of their items but I've grown extremely interested with the other Air Powers aswell, like the RAF, USAAF and Regia Aeronautica etc.
So here is my Air War collection after about 1,5 years of switching my focus.
NOTE: I've decided to mix the items from the different nations because otherwise I would've photographed all day but I've put them into different categories and not all items from the collection are shown here, I've decided to keep out the categories of which I only have one item from, for example I currently only own ONE dagger and ONE uniform therefore they are not included and other misc items like flags. And I've also decided that this post will be used to share my newer additions if they are worthy enough to share!
Hope you'll like it!
Tobias
We'll start of with Medals, Badges and Wings
Insignia
Headgear
And lastly Photographs and other Paper items
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