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12-21-2010 11:50 AM
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Re: Unfamiliar German awards from Stalingrad
The first 2 are tinnies, not rare at all, they are worth a couple of dollars i would. I am not sure about the last one, don't think it is German.
Best Regards
Vegard T.
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Re: Unfamiliar German awards from Stalingrad
Are you positive these were dug in Stalingrad? These are funny things to find at a place like that.
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Re: Unfamiliar German awards from Stalingrad
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ObKrieger
Are you positive these were dug in Stalingrad? These are funny things to find at a place like that.
Not really tinnies can turn up anywhere where the Germans were.
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
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Re: Unfamiliar German awards from Stalingrad
The third one is Romanian, I believe. I wouldn't pay much at all for those German tinnies, with both pins gone. Even if nice, they wouldn't be worth much. 10-15 euros for the lot is tops, and that is being generous.
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Re: Unfamiliar German awards from Stalingrad
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ObKrieger
Are you positive these were dug in Stalingrad? These are funny things to find at a place like that.
I would have thought the same, why would a front line soldier in the hell of Stalingrad be carrying tinnies?
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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Re: Unfamiliar German awards from Stalingrad
why would a front line soldier in the hell of Stalingrad be carrying tinnies?
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Re: Unfamiliar German awards from Stalingrad
Who says they have come from the front line or from a combat unit but even if they did it doesn't mean a soldier didn't have them with him? The Sixth Army and the part of 4th Panzer Armee were over 300,000 strong and didn't just have Military gear with them they had personal and domestic items of most things a human being would want or anything they chose to have with them , digging out the Battlefields uncovers many such items and momemtos of the lives of the individual , the reasons why a soldier would have a tinnie could be many and apply to any item from home which may have some type of sentimental value to a particular person , maybe he met his wife / girlfriend at that Arbeit day who knows ???
Sometimes when digging it is the small personal items that have no military significance that are the most poignant.
Plus i have seen Tinnies for sale in Volgograd before and some in a Museum i think the one at the school at Gorodische.
regards
Paul
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
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